Circle packing in a square is a packing problem in recreational mathematics where the aim is to pack n unit circles into the smallest possible square...
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In geometry, circle packing is the study of the arrangement of circles (of equal or varying sizes) on a given surface such that no overlapping occurs...
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shape, often a square or circle. Square packing in a square is the problem of determining the maximum number of unit squares (squares of side length one)...
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Circle packing in a circle is a two-dimensional packing problem with the objective of packing unit circles into the smallest possible larger circle. If...
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the ideas in the circle packing theorem. The related circle packing problem deals with packing circles, possibly of different sizes, on a surface, for...
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equivalent of the circle packing in a square problem in two dimensions. The problem consists of determining the optimal packing of a given number of spheres...
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three-dimensional equivalent of the circle packing in a circle problem in two dimensions. Best packing of m>1 equal spheres in a sphere setting a new density record...
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circle packing in a square. Packing squares into other shapes can have high computational complexity: testing whether a given number of unit squares can...
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the term "packing" even when the locations are fixed. Circle packing in a rectangle Square packing in a square De Bruijn's theorem: packing congruent...
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The circles of Apollonius are any of several sets of circles associated with Apollonius of Perga, a renowned Greek geometer. Most of these circles are...
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Circle packing problem Tarski's circle-squaring problem – Problem of cutting and reassembling a disk into a square Thales' theorem Circle tangents in...
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a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center of every point. Every circle is in contact with 3 other circles in the packing (kissing...
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Descartes' theorem (redirect from Soddy circle)
{\displaystyle C=2} in spherical geometry and C = − 2 {\displaystyle C=-2} in hyperbolic geometry. Circle packing in a circle Euler's four-square identity Malfatti...
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a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center of every point. Every circle is in contact with 5 other circles in the packing (kissing...
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Commonly, designs are based on circles centered on triangles (with the simple, two circle form named vesica piscis) or on the square lattice pattern of points...
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Hexagonal tiling (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2011)
hexagon, the resulting figure is the densest way to arrange circles in two dimensions; its packing density is π 2 3 ≈ 0.907 {\textstyle {\frac {\pi }{2{\sqrt...
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Steinitz's theorem (category Theorems in graph theory)
methods using the circle packing theorem to generate a canonical polyhedron. Although Steinitz's original proof was not expressed in terms of graph theory...
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In geometry, Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles is an infinite sequence of circles arranged so that any four consecutive circles in the...
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2-dimensional analog of Kepler's conjecture: the regular hexagonal packing is the densest circle packing in the plane (1890). This disambiguation page lists mathematics...
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Midsphere (category Circle packing)
corresponding circles in this circle packing. Every convex polyhedron has a combinatorially equivalent polyhedron, the canonical polyhedron, that does have a midsphere...
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3-4-3-12 tiling (section Circle Packing)
called a demiregular tiling by some authors. This 2-uniform tiling can be used as a circle packing. Cyan circles are in contact with 3 other circles (1 cyan...
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Doyle spiral (category Circle packing)
In the mathematics of circle packing, a Doyle spiral is a pattern of non-crossing circles in the plane in which each circle is surrounded by a ring of...
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In mathematics, a Ford circle is a circle in the Euclidean plane, in a family of circles that are all tangent to the x {\displaystyle x} -axis at rational...
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Reuleaux triangle (redirect from Square hole drill)
highest packing density of any curve of constant width. Any curve of constant width can form a rotor within a square, a shape that can perform a complete...
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Truncated trihexagonal tiling (section Circle packing)
a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center of every point. Every circle is in contact with 3 other circles in the packing (kissing...
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It is also related to the densest circle packing of the plane, in which every circle is tangent to six other circles, which fill just over 90% of the area...
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double lattice packing shown. In a preprint released in 2016, Thomas Hales and Wöden Kusner announced a proof that this double lattice packing of the regular...
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Elongated triangular tiling (section Circle packing)
arbitrary shifts in the square row colorings. The elongated triangular tiling can be used as a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center...
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33344-33434 tiling (section Circle Packings)
used as a circle packings. In the first 2-uniform tiling (whose dual resembles a key-lock pattern): cyan circles are in contact with 5 other circles (3 cyan...
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Rhombitrihexagonal tiling (section Circle packing)
surrounding squares and triangles with dodecagons: The rhombitrihexagonal tiling can be used as a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center...
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