Closest Packing of Spheres
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Closest Packing of Spheres:
"Spheres packed together as closely as possible around a center sphere do not form a super-sphere, as" might "be expected. They form a polyhedron bounded by 14 faces. Six of these faces are squares, eight are triangles."
(SEE ILLUSTRATION # 50.)
Citations
- MARKS, p. 41, 1960
