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Comment by fiforpg

Not necessarily—in 3d there are uncountably many non-lattice packings. They all have the same density as the FCC lattice though. To construct these packings, shift horizontal layers of FCC horizontally with respect to each other.

It is conjectured that in higher dimensions, the densest packing is always non-lattice. The rationale being that there is just not enough symmetry in such spaces.

parent fiforpg 1 year ago

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