Closest Packing of Spheres
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Closest Packing of Spheres:
"Spheres of uniform unit size can be closest-packed around a common center sphere, but not around a 'common symmetric void, which is meaningless.' You don't have to have a nucleus to call it closest packing. For example, three balls-- or even two balls-- may be arranged in closest packing."
Citations
- Marginalia on Nucleus entry cited to Marks, P. 45. as revised by RBF 13 March 1971.
