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Unpainted unit cubes inside a dipped 10-cube

Question

A large 10×10×1010\times10\times10 cube is assembled from 10001000 unpainted unit cubes. The whole large cube is then dunked in paint. How many of the small unit cubes end up with no paint on any face?

Short answer

512512. Only cubes on the outer layer touch paint. Stripping that one-cube-thick shell from every side leaves an inner block of 8×8×8=5128\times8\times8=512 cubes, all untouched.

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