Kepler’s Conjecture

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Episode four of Another Five Numbers, the BBC radio series presented by Simon Singh.

Johannes Kepler experimented with different ways of stacking spheres. He concluded that the "face-centred cubic lattice" was best. Using this method, Kepler calculated that the packing efficiency rose to 74%, constituting the highest efficiency you could ever get. But, how to prove it?

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