February 2008 Archives

Kissing Number

I found a great link this morning on Mathworld.com, a piece about the Kissing number. This is twelve in 3-D and 24 in 4-D. I wonder if I can explain 24 for 4-D on the four colour rhombohedral lattice.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/KissingNumber.html

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