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At first glance, blues seem to have 2 contact points and magentas have none, but the correspondence seems to break for yellow and orange, which each have severa
by XaspR8d 7y ago
At first glance, blues seem to have 2 contact points and magentas have none, but the correspondence seems to break for yellow and orange, which each have several (overlapping) numbers of neighbors that they are used with.
- pavel_lishin 7y agoAh, I see it now. A magenta circle touches no other circles. A blue circle touches one other circle. An orange circle touches two other circles. A yellow circle touches three other circles.
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- dhritzkiv 7y agoThat's what I thought as well, but that theory doesn't appear to hold up. For example: http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/cci14.html http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/cci14.html
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