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Chinese scientists push limits of 300-year-old math problem in sphere packing

Scientists at Fudan University, Peking University, and the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science ...
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To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random

Mathematicians like to generalize concepts into higher dimensions. Sometimes this is easy. If you want to efficiently pack squares in two dimensions, you arrange them like a checkerboard. To squeeze ...