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Given a
cube
, find another cube which is twice as
large
, with nothing more than a
compass
and a
straight-edge
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the three geometric problems of antiquity
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This classical
mathematical problem
is sometimes called the Delian problem, as it was originally set by the
oracle
of
Delios
in the 5th Century BC. The Delians were instructed that, in order to rid themselves of a
plague
, they must double the
altar
of their god -- its shape being a perfect cube. The problem exercised many mathematicians over the next two and a half millennia, but only in the
19th Century
was it proved to be impossible, using the newly-developed mathematical techniques of
group theory
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