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  2. Sphere - Wikipedia

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    For most practical purposes, the volume inside a sphere inscribed in a cube can be approximated as 52.4% of the volume of the cube, since V = ⁠ π / 6 ⁠ d 3, where d is the diameter of the sphere and also the length of a side of the cube and ⁠ π / 6 ⁠ ≈ 0.5236.

  3. Method of exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    Proposition 11: The volume of a cone (or cylinder) of the same height is proportional to the area of the base. [6] Proposition 12: The volume of a cone (or cylinder) that is similar to another is proportional to the cube of the ratio of the diameters of the bases. [7] Proposition 18: The volume of a sphere is proportional to the cube of its ...

  4. Napkin ring problem - Wikipedia

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    Lines, L. (1965), Solid geometry: With Chapters on Space-lattices, Sphere-packs and Crystals, Dover. Reprint of 1935 edition. A problem on page 101 describes the shape formed by a sphere with a cylinder removed as a "napkin ring" and asks for a proof that the volume is the same as that of a sphere with diameter equal to the length of the hole.

  5. Kepler conjecture - Wikipedia

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    The volume of the Voronoi polyhedron of a sphere in a packing of equal spheres is at least the volume of a regular dodecahedron with inradius 1. McLaughlin's proof, [13] for which he received the 1999 Morgan Prize. A related problem, whose proof uses similar techniques to Hales' proof of the Kepler conjecture. Conjecture by L. Fejes Tóth in ...

  6. On the Sphere and Cylinder - Wikipedia

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    On the Sphere and Cylinder (Greek: Περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου) is a treatise that was published by Archimedes in two volumes c. 225 BCE. [1] It most notably details how to find the surface area of a sphere and the volume of the contained ball and the analogous values for a cylinder, and was the first to do so. [2]

  7. Spherical cap - Wikipedia

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    An example of a spherical cap in blue (and another in red) In geometry, a spherical cap or spherical dome is a portion of a sphere or of a ball cut off by a plane.It is also a spherical segment of one base, i.e., bounded by a single plane.

  8. Sphere packing - Wikipedia

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    The proportion of space filled by the spheres is called the packing density of the arrangement. As the local density of a packing in an infinite space can vary depending on the volume over which it is measured, the problem is usually to maximise the average or asymptotic density, measured over a large enough volume.

  9. n-sphere - Wikipedia

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    The ⁠ ⁠-sphere, often simply called a sphere, is the boundary of a ⁠ ⁠-ball in three-dimensional space. The 3-sphere is the boundary of a ⁠ ⁠-ball in four-dimensional space. The ⁠ ⁠-sphere is the boundary of an ⁠ ⁠-ball.