Kissing number
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title:
Kissing number
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In geometry, the kissing number of a mathematical space is defined as the greatest number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be arranged in that space such that they each touch a common unit sphere. For a given sphere packing (arrangement of spheres) in a given space, a kissing number can also be defined for each individual sphere as the number of spheres it touches. For a lattice packing the kissing number is the same for every sphere, but for an arbitrary sphere packing the kissing numbe
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Geometric concept
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_number
date created:
2003-12-20T02:16:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T10:26:40Z
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