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Old 12-23-2011, 04:52 PM   #119
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
if 1024 is the answer,
then the answer is that the cube is 8x8x8 and the square around the cube is 8 layers deep on each side. And the corners are filled in. So each side ends up with 128 cubes.

I guess they wanted the sides to be as thick as the cube.
I think we, the Cellar, have come up with several answers that meet the requirements as well as this.

A slightly simpler way to do the maths for this answer would be to imagine the 8x8x8 cube in the middle, then image 8 8x8 flat squares abuting each side and filling the corners. 8 sets of 64 = 512.
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