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A wire frame is made by wrapping a wire around the 'equator' of a perfectly spherical balloon of unit radius and wrapping two wires at right angles around the sphere going through the North and South poles. The balloon is then deflated but remains perfectly spherical until it can just be moved out of the framework. What is the radius of the largest sphere that can pass through this frame, without distorting it, from inside to outside?
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