#utterly useless knowledge

[my-name-is-siduri]

worthless knowledge of the day: the mickey costume used in this picture is the same one used at the premiere of Captain EO in Tomorrowland, which the Pet Shop Boys posed with

[quantumwitchgame]

The nintendo gamecube wasn't actually a cube.

But how many gamecubes would we need to make an actual cube?

For this I'm assuming we remove the awkward handles, and have a gamecube of 110h x150w x161d in mm

Let's figure out how many we'd need to make a gamecubecube.

First, get the prime factors of each dimension

110 = 2 5 11 150 = 2 3 5^2 161 = 7 23

The product of the prime factors is 265650 so each edge of our gamecubecube is going to be 265650mm.

Now we can see how many gamecubes would make up our gamecubecube.

It would be 265650/110 high = 2415

265650/150 wide = 1771

265650/161 deep = 1650

So with those dimensions, we'd need 7,056,992,250 gamecubes to make a gamecubecube

I don't think it's practical to get hold over over 7 billion gamecubes to form a gamecubecube that's over 265 meters high though.

But I feel better for knowing this.