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A084827 Maximum number of spheres of volume one that can be packed in a sphere of volume n. +0
4
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10, 12, 12, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15, 16, 16, 17, 18, 18, 19, 19, 19, 20, 21, 21, 21, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 25, 25, 26 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,8

COMMENT

Higher terms of the sequence are only conjectures derived from numerical results. The first 12 arrangements are identical with the solutions of the Tammes problem (see A080865).

LINKS

Hugo Pfoertner, Numerical results for best packing of spheres in sphere.

Hugo Pfoertner, Densest packings of n equal spheres in a sphere of radius 1 (Table of largest possible radii)

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, World of Mathematics: Sphere Packing.

EXAMPLE

a(10)=2 because a sphere of volume 10 is slightly too small to cover 3 mutually touching spheres of volume 1. a(27)=13 because the arrangement of 12 spheres plus one central sphere needs exactly a sphere with R=3*r to be contained.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A084828, A084829, A084824, A080865.

Sequence in context: A112205 A117953 A128331 this_sequence A029076 A036015 A130521

Adjacent sequences: A084824 A084825 A084826 this_sequence A084828 A084829 A084830

KEYWORD

hard,more,nonn

AUTHOR

Hugo Pfoertner (hugo(AT)pfoertner.org), Jun 09 2003

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Hugo Pfoertner (hugo(AT)pfoertner.org), May 09 2005

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