Doubling the Cube/Fallacious Proof/Edw. J. Goodwin

Fallacious Proof of Doubling the Cube

Doubling the dimensions of the cube octuples its contents, and doubling its contents increases its dimensions twenty-five plus one per cent.

-- Edw. J. Goodwin

Resolution

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Sources

• 1895: Edw. J. Goodwin: Queries and Information: (B) Duplication of the Cube (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 2, no. 11: p. 337)  www.jstor.org/stable/2971569