Take a lump of dough or clay and divide it in half. Take one of the halves and divide it in half. (Perhaps use a balance to divide precisely.) How many times can you repeat?
Each lump, perhaps formed into a sphere, has linear dimensions 79.37% = (1/2)^(1/3) of the lump twice its size (volume). Three halvings divide by 8, so you should a have a lump with half the linear dimensions.
Express numbers in binary as subsets of lumps.
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