Calculating the optimal sphere packing density: with oranges

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Calculating the optimal sphere packing density: with oranges

2017-05-11

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Check out the corresponding video I made with Steve Mould for his channel.

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Thomas Hales’s proof of the Kepler Conjecture.

http://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-v162-n3-p01.pdf

The Kepler Conjecture on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_conjecture

Cubic Close Packing on Mathworld.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubicClosePacking.html

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