Cube root this required the construction, now known to be impossible, of the length . A method for extracting cube roots appears in "The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art", a Chinese mathematical text compiled around the 2nd century BCE and commented on by Liu Hui in the 3rd century CE. The Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria devised a method for calculating cube roots in the 1st century CE. His formula is again mentioned by Eutokios in a commentary on Archimedes. In 499 CE Aryabhata, a mathematician-astronomer from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy, gave a method for finding
Gelatinous cube who's not either glued to the floor or fast asleep. In fact, we're pretty sure the "Dungeon Master's Guide" reads: "The first player to ask "Can't I just get out of the way?" automatically defeats the Gelatinous Cube"." Rob Bricken from io9 named the gelatinous cube as the 5th most memorable D&D monster. Chris Sims of the on-line magazine "Comics Alliance" stated of the gelatinous cube that "there can be no question of what is the greatest monster" in "D&D", calling the gelatinous cube "amazing". Gelatinous cube A gelatinous cube is a fictional monster from the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy