# Densest Packings of n Equal Spheres in a Sphere of Radius 1. # Largest Possible Radii # The corresponding results by Th. Gensane published in the # not easily accessible Les Cahiers du LMPA J. Liouville 188, 2003 # are not included in the following list. # Dave Boll only gave the radii without providing sphere locations. # So far, his data for n=31, 39, 41...44 and 46...49 could not be improved. # 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 2005 06 27 #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 0.3445761 'Tammes sol.' 12 0.3445761 '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 0.2756706 'Tammes sol.+0' 24 0.2713413 'HP' 25 0.2711917 'Tammes sol.+0' 26 0.2668496 'HP' 27 0.2622319 'HP' 28 0.2603008 'HP' 29 0.2579251 'HP' 30 0.2553300 'HP' 31 0.2531150 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2531141 32 0.2507763 'HP' 33 0.2487091 'HP' 34 0.2470392 'HP' 35 0.2448156 'HP' 36 0.2422138 'HP' 37 0.2406218 'HP' 38 0.2405153 'HP' 39 0.2367030 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2364550 40 0.2349756 'HP' 41 0.2327020 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2326007 42 0.2321190 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2318415 43 0.2296670 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2293397 44 0.2280830 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2279659 45 0.2267410 'HP' 46 0.2251640 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2248426 47 0.2233420 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2231777 48 0.2223630 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2218110 49 0.2209800 'Dave Boll' / best HP: 0.2208847 50 0.2192799 'HP' 51 0.2178870 'HP' 52 0.2165021 'HP' 53 0.2156597 'HP' 54 0.2146072 'HP' 55 0.2123940 'HP' 56 0.2114613 'HP' 57 0.2105867 'HP' 58 0.2096213 'HP' 59 0.2094285 'HP' 60 0.2094263 'HP' 61 0.2088827 'HP' 62 0.2053111 'HP' 63 0.2043984 'HP' 64 0.2033423 'HP' 65 0.2023372 'HP' 66 0.2014298 'HP' 67 0.2004418 'HP' 68 0.1993361 'HP' 69 0.1985582 'HP' 70 0.1976337 'HP' 71 0.1961653 'HP' 72 0.1957998 'HP'