On Limits of Dense Packing of Equal Spheres in a Cube
On Limits of Dense Packing of Equal Spheres in a Cube
We examine packing of $n$ congruent spheres in a cube when $n$ is close but less than the number of spheres in a regular cubic close-packed (ccp) arrangement of $\lceil p^{3}/2\rceil$ spheres. For this family of packings, the previous best-known arrangements were usually derived from a ccp by omission of …