Compact Packings of the Plane with Two Sizes of Discs |
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Authors: | Tom Kennedy |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA |
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Abstract: | We consider packings of the plane using discs of
radius 1 and r. A packing is compact if every disc D is
tangent to a sequence of discs D1, D2, ..., Dn such that
Di is tangent to Di+1. We prove that there are only nine values of
r with r < 1 for which such packings are possible. For each of the nine
values we describe the possible compact packings. |
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