Tammes problem
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tammes-problem-175-3600040
title:
Tammes problem
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In geometry, the Tammes problem is a problem in packing a given number of points on the surface of a sphere such that the minimum distance between points is maximized. It is named after the Dutch botanist Pieter Merkus Lambertus Tammes who posed the problem in his 1930 doctoral dissertation on the distribution of pores on pollen grains. It can be viewed as a particular special case of the generalized Thomson problem of minimizing the total Coulomb force of electrons in a spherical arrangement. T
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Circle packing problem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammes_problem
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2008-09-15T18:47:51Z
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2024-09-03T00:43:03Z
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