# Densest Packings of n Equal Spheres in a Sphere of Radius 1. # Largest Possible Radii # The results by Th. Gensane are published in the article # Dense Packings of Equal Spheres in a Larger Sphere, # Les Cahiers du LMPA J. Liouville 188, 2003 # Th. Gensane's data for n>40 are from private communication Nov 2005. # Dave Boll only gave the radii without providing sphere locations. # Author: Hugo Pfoertner http://www.pfoertner.org/ # URL of this file: http://www.randomwalk.de/sphere/insphr/spisbest.txt # Date of last update: YYYY MM DD 2008 02 02 #n Radius Originator 1 1.0000000 'common sense' 2 0.5000000 'common sense' 3 0.4641016 'Tammes sol.' 4 0.4494897 'Tammes sol.' 5 0.4142135 'Tammes sol.' 6 0.4142135 'Tammes sol.' 7 0.3859136 'Tammes sol.' 8 0.3780248 'Tammes sol.' 9 0.3660254 'Tammes sol.' 10 0.3530494 'Tammes sol.' 11 0.3445765 'Tammes sol.' 12 0.3445765 'Tammes sol.' 13 0.3333333 'Tammes sol.+0' 14 0.3235046 'Tammes sol.+0' 15 0.3183048 'Tammes sol.+0' 16 0.3109759 'Tammes sol.+0' 17 0.3056940 'Tammes sol.+0' 18 0.3012965 'Tammes sol.+0' 19 0.2953323 'Tammes sol.+0' 20 0.2878907 'Tammes sol.+0' 21 0.2868327 'Tammes sol.+0' 22 0.2793425 'Tammes sol.+0' 23 0.2756707 'Tammes sol.+0' 24 0.2713413 'Thierry Gensane' 25 0.2711918 'Tammes sol.+0' 26 0.2668513 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2668496 27 0.2622321 'Thierry Gensane' 28 0.2603055 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2603008 29 0.2579255 'Thierry Gensane' 30 0.2553306 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2553300 31 0.2531162 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2531141 32 0.2507874 'Thierry Gensane' 33 0.2487624 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2487614 34 0.2470527 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2470423 35 0.2448337 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2448284 36 0.2431322 'Thierry Gensane' 37 0.2406866 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2406218 38 0.2405156 'Thierry Gensane' 39 0.2367452 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2365522 40 0.2349992 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2349756 41 0.2327559 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2326644 42 0.2321190 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2318415 43 0.2297330 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2293405 44 0.2281629 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2281582 45 0.2269116 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2267410 46 0.2251681 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2251162 47 0.2235070 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2234820 48 0.2224059 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2223540 49 0.2212751 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2209176 50 0.2197529 'Thierry Gensane' / best HP: 0.2193485 51 0.2178888 'HP' 52 0.2167665 'HP' 53 0.2157772 'HP' 54 0.2146846 'HP' 55 0.2132680 'HP' 56 0.2126136 'HP' 57 0.2108661 'HP' 58 0.2103022 'HP' 59 0.2096252 'HP' 60 0.2094269 'HP' 61 0.2089123 'HP' 62 0.2058170 'HP' 63 0.2047140 'HP' 64 0.2036646 'HP' 65 0.2027475 'HP' 66 0.2019158 'HP' 67 0.2004429 'HP' 68 0.1997220 'HP' 69 0.1987922 'HP' 70 0.1983310 'HP' 71 0.1969787 'HP' 72 0.1958001 'HP'