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Mystwalker · 2005-09-06, 00:17

Assuming the balls can be pressed into arbitrary shapes, we only have to take care of the volume. This is ½ d³ or 500cm³.
Thus, 2000 balls (well, cubes by now :wink: ) would fit into the box...

2005-09-06, 00:17	#5
Mystwalker Jul 2004 Potsdam, Germany 3×277 Posts	Assuming the balls can be pressed into arbitrary shapes, we only have to take care of the volume. This is ½ d³ or 500cm³. Thus, 2000 balls (well, cubes by now :wink: ) would fit into the box... Last fiddled with by Mystwalker on 2005-09-06 at 00:19