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  • Ferrers' partitioning diagram for 14
    combinatorics
    / Packing and covering

    It is easily seen that six equal circular disks may be placed around another disk of the same size so that the central one is touched by all the others but no two overlap (Figure 7) and that it is not possible to place…

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    It is easily seen that six equal circular disks may be placed around another disk of the same size so that the central one is touched by all the others but no two overlap (Figure 7) and that it is not possible to place…

    Read More