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Packing Equal Spheres in a Sphere

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This Demonstration shows the currently best known packings for equal spheres in a unit sphere [1]. Spheres are colored according to their distance from the center.

Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr (June 13)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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[1] H. Pfoertner. "Numerical Results for Densest Packing of Equal Spheres in a Larger Sphere with Radius ." (Feb 20, 2023) oeis.org/A084827/a084827.txt.

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