Calculating the optimal sphere packing density: with oranges

Check out the corresponding video I made with Steve Mould for his channel.
https://youtu.be/O3RsDIWB7s0

Thomas Hales’s proof of the Kepler Conjecture.
http://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-v162-n3-p01.pdf

The Kepler Conjecture on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_conjecture

Cubic Close Packing on Mathworld.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubicClosePacking.html


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