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I want some cubes painted with three blue faces and three red faces. How many different cubes can be painted like that?

Polycircles

Show that for any triangle it is always possible to construct 3 touching circles with centres at the vertices. Is it possible to construct touching circles centred at the vertices of any polygon?

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