{"id":1193,"date":"2016-04-20T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2016-04-20T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T13:39:06","slug":"squares-cubes-and-alpha-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/squares-cubes-and-alpha-centauri\/","title":{"rendered":"Squares, Cubes, and Alpha Centauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C5QTwge4dNo\">I love all kinds of space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The space in front of me:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The student\u00a0who sends me the best solution to this problem by 4\/29\u00a0will get $50. The only requirement is that your solution must be in video form.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Can you fill a cube with a finite<br \/>\nnumber of cubes of all different sizes?<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The space above be:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week we were 70,000 years away from the nearest star system to our own, Alpha Centauri. Today we are 20 years away. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/13\/science\/alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html\">Learn more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The space all around me<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Next year I will be leading a spring break trip to New Zealand. Applications are due by Monday, May 2nd. Complete trip information is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/NewZealand2017.org\">NewZealand2017.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Squares, Cubes, and Alpha Centauri\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C5QTwge4dNo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love all kinds of space. The space in front of me: The student\u00a0who sends me the best solution to this problem by 4\/29\u00a0will get $50. The only requirement is that your solution must be in video form. Can you fill a cube with a finite number of cubes of all different sizes? The space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/squares-cubes-and-alpha-centauri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Squares, Cubes, and Alpha Centauri<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[202],"tags":[228,230,229],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-alpha-centari","tag-cubes","tag-squares"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GnmO-jf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}