Posted by Brad Paul on September 24, 2002 at 16:48:01:
In Reply to: a math problem with a prize attached posted by Mahalo on September 23, 2002 at 23:23:01:
: Up to how many billiard balls with a 2 inch diameter can be fit into a ball with inner diameter of 10 inches?
: Can you generalize it? (Diameter of billard ball being M, inner diameter of a larger ball being N, where M < N)
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: If you tell me how to solve, I will give you one of our products free.
This is one of those questions that is so easy to ask but very hard to
answer. The following web site I found by searching Google with
"packing spheres"
http://www.frii.com/~dboll/packing.html