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A cylindrical hole six inches long has been drilled straight through the center of a solid sphere - just as shown in the illustration. The question is what is the volume remaining in the sphere?
----- *Martin Gardner has found the earliest reference for this problem in Samuel I. Jones's Mathematical Nuts, self-published, Nashville, 1932.
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Last Update December 7, 2003