The next morning, the professor walked into the seminar room, a stack of papers in his hand. He asked the class to volunteer a solution for Exercise 179. Maya’s hand rose, heart thudding like a metronome.
A pleasant symmetry emerged: the height and the side of the base were equal! The optimal box turned out to be a whose edge length was (\frac2R\sqrt3). The next morning, the professor walked into the
[ y = 2\sqrtR^2 - \fracx^22 . ]
The vertices of the box lie on the sphere, so each corner satisfies the equation The next morning
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