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Five Shapes

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

New series 1/5. The Cube. Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the cube - the ideal shape for packing and stacking. But when one supermarket put tomato soup in cube-shaped tin cans, no one bought it. Perhaps this highly practical shape is just a little bit too perfect for mainstream taste, producer Anna Buckley

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Anna Buckley
Source: Radio Times

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