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THE beautiful result arrived at by Mr. Gosset thus gives an alternative very simple expression for the bend of any of five spheres in mutual contact, namely, /2 + 3, where denotes the sum of the bends of the other four, whilst the volume of the tetrahedron involved is (2)/(3). It applies in general to tetrahedra for which the sum of opposite pairs of edges is, for all three pairs, the same.
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SODDY, F. [Letters to The Editors]. Nature 139, 252 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139252a0
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