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Nature 400, 617-618 (12 August 1999) | doi:10.1038/23139

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Crystal structures:  Tiling by numbers

Michael O'Keeffe1

There is a long history of overlapping problems in chemistry and geometry. A classic example is the problem of the densest packing of equal spheres.

  1. Michael O'Keeffe is in the Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, USA.
    e-mail: Email: mokeeffe@asu.edu