019 = Wetness, Trees and Pet Mysteries
A Problem Squared
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How to Solve a Problem in a Hypercube
Matt Bellini: I was going to tell a quick story about how we discovered a thing. But then I realized there's a lot of background involving higher dimensional shakes before you get to the fun people glued dice together to tile all of the unfoldings of the hypercube. And so we had a breakthrough in mathematics. Now we know it is possible to tile all 261 nets of a 4D cube. We have a problem sent in on our problem posing page on a problems squared dot com, which says six months ago, I found a hamster in my apartment. Where did he come from? They've evidently named the hamster, Hammy.
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