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As usual with these "factoids" on cereal boxes, or other boxes,
someone got the whole thing so bolixed up that it is hard to figure
out what they meant. But, by looking at the problem (entitled
"battleship in a bathtub" as I recall) in Epstein's book, one can
easily see that, in principle, there is no lower limit to the amount
of water needed to "float" a destroyer.