Why You Should Care about Sphere-Packing

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Unpacking sphere-packing

People must wonder why I spend so much time and energy writing about sphere-packing. What is the point? Why should anyone care about how balls fit together?

For my answer to make any sense, we need to go back to around 4000 BC when clay tokens…