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Closest Packing of Spheres

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Closest Packing of Spheres:

"...Spheres of a uniform unit size... can be closest-packed around a common center sphere. But you don't have to have a nucleus to call it closest packing; for example, three-- or even two balls-- may be closest packed."

Citations

  1. MARKS, p.45, as rewritten by RBF, Beverly Hotel, New York, 13 Mar'71

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