I did not solve it before Oleg and John posted the solution. My own method would have resembled Bill Lam's "moving a sofa through the the door" method than any computation.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Howell, Leonard W. (MSFC-VP62)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 11:06 am Subject: RE: [Jprogramming] square and cube > I didn't have much luck solving this one on my own but found the > solution at mathworld. > > Can you explain how it was solved, hopefully with some J thinking? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Hui > Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 2:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Jprogramming] square and cube > > http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/wwwr_ponder.nsf/challenges/May2007.h > tml > > What is the size of the largest square that will fit in the unit cube? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
