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sphere packing

an arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space
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sphere packing

Summary

sphere packing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (488 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sphere packing's image is recorded as Close packing box.svg[2].
  • sphere packing's follows is recorded as circle packing[3].
  • sphere packing's subclass of is recorded as packing problem[4].
  • sphere packing's Commons category is recorded as Sphere packings[5].
  • sphere packing's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0207dk[6].
  • sphere packing's MathWorld ID is recorded as SpherePacking[7].
  • sphere packing's Quora topic ID is recorded as Sphere-Packing[8].
  • sphere packing's nLab ID is recorded as sphere packing[9].
  • sphere packing's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[10].
  • sphere packing's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 183893376[11].
  • sphere packing's Brilliant Wiki ID is recorded as sphere-packing[12].
  • sphere packing's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C183893376[13].

Why It Matters

sphere packing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (488 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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