> >A related 'trick' question: take a wire cube, each wire has a
> >resistance of 1 ohm. Put a 1 Volt battery on the two diagonally
> >opposite points on one side. How much current does the
> battery supply?
> >The trick is of course that some wires carry zero current.
>
> I beg to differ. There are no wires that bear zero current in
> a cube as you describe (hint: the number of edges the current
> has to traverse is always uneven - equal to three).

I guess you put the battery between 0,0,0, and 1,1,1. I tried (in words)
to specify a battery between 0,0,0 and 1,1,0. This might have confused
you?

Wouter

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