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Packing

The placement of objects so that they touch in some specified manner, often inside a container with specified properties. For example, one could consider a sphere packing, ellipsoid packing, polyhedron packing, etc.

SEE ALSO: Barlow Packing, Box-Packing Theorem, Circle Packing, Covering, Ellipsoid Packing, Groemer Packing, Hypersphere Packing, Kelvin's Conjecture, Kepler Problem, Kissing Number, Packing Density, Polyhedron Packing, Space-Filling Polyhedron, Sphere Packing, Spherical Covering, Spherical Design, Triangle Packing

REFERENCES:

Eppstein, D. "Covering and Packing." http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/cover.html.

Friedman, E. "Erich's Packing Center." http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/packing.html.




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