
024 = Pumpkin Bores and Bumps 'n' Doors
A Problem Squared
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The Prince Rupert's Cube
There's a thing called Prince Rupert's Cube. This was an idea in the 1600s of can you make a hole in a cube big enough to fit that cube through? And the answer it turns out is yes. The reason why it works and the reason why I was like, well, how can you have a hole bigger than the thing in the thing? It's because the size of something changes depending on the way that you hold it up.
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