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Putnam 1948 A2

  • Session A

Two spheres in contact have a common tangent cone. These three surfaces divide the space into various parts, only one of which is bounded by all three surfaces, it is "ring-shaped." Being given the radii of the spheres, rr and RR , find the volume of the "ring-shaped" part. (The desired expression is a rational function of rr and R.R. )

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