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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Everything you know is wrong!
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Date: Thu, 18-Aug-83 13:58:13 EDT
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Lew Mammel Jr claims that a cylinder inscribed on a sphere has the same
ratio of surface area to volume, namely 3/R, but there is one flaw in the
analysis, for the same r, the cylinder is 50% larger in both area and volume;
if you scale the cylinder down to equal volume, it has an area which is
the cube root of 1.5 times larger (1.146 by my old slide rule).  The sphere
wins by a nose!