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Letter: Nine lives!

Published 14 May 2008

From Paul Dormer

Paul Mander takes Feedback to task for saying cubic litres involve nine dimensions as this implies cubing a cube and the cube of 3 is not 9 (19 April, p 17). He should check his maths. The cube of a number n is n × n × n. Cubing this gives (n × n × n) × (n × n × n) × (n × n × n) which is quite clearly n to the power 9.

Guildford, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 2656 published 17 May 2008

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