A080866 Number of equal shortest edges in the solutions of the Tammes' problem.

1, 3, 6, 6, 12, 12, 16, 18, 19, 25, 30, 24, 28

Offset: 2

Author

Hugo Pfoertner, Feb 21 2003

Keywords

• hard
• nonn

Comments

A conjectured continuation of the sequence starting with n=15 would be: 30 32 34 34 34 39 40 42 43 60 48 46 52 52 54 63 60 66 66 68 66 72 66 72 76 78 81 85 82 88 84 91 89 120 96 102.

In the visualization given at the link the shortest edges are those drawn as golden color rods.

References

• See under A080865.

Links

• Hugo Pfoertner, Arrangement of points on a sphere. Visualization of the best known solutions of the Tammes' problem.
• Hugo Pfoertner, Table of edge lengths.

Crossrefs

Cf. A080865.