Your solution is prone to problems with accuracy of floating point numbers:

Here's what I found:

The issue with your solution lies in the way you check if the side is the cube root of the volume. Using cbrt(volume) for integers can result in precision errors since the cube root of an integer might not be exactly an integer due to floating-point arithmetic inaccuracies.

Your solution is buggy, it's not a kata issue.

same issue in JS

tests are not broken in C++ (your language)

your code does not adhere to one of the directives:

Return false for invalid numbers too (e.g volume or side is less than or equal to 0).

Ah yes, that was my mistake. Fixed it and it works now, thanks.

Your code does not check for invalid sides correctly.

What does your solution return for volume = -8, side = -2? (Hint: it is not false).

For some reason my kata passes all basic tests (typescript), but fails random test. Confused with what is wrong, as I followed the description and everything otherwise works.

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python new test framework is required. updated in this fork

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That's because the way you check for negative side and volume is not exactly correct. Your solution returns a wrong answer for volume=-8, side=-2.