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49 pointsby carlos-menezeslast Sunday at 1:20 PM4 commentsview on HN

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sesteptoday at 2:26 AM

The triangular table view is fascinating. It looks like the periodic table. I wonder if there are number-theoretic lemmas (or at least conjectures?) about what "family" the optimal packing for a given number falls into (like diamond, diagonal strip, two blobs, etc). I didn't see anything when skimming the survey paper linked at the bottom of the site, but I'm sure there's a lot more literature here.

NooneAtAll3today at 4:32 AM

I love 130. "You thought I'm just a 2-wide strip? SIKE, here's 8-degree polynomial!"

gus_massalast Sunday at 9:49 PM

In case you want a challenge, 11 is the smaller that has a solution that has not been proven to be optimal.

razorbeamztoday at 3:38 AM

Looks like Hiroshi Nagamochi did all the boring work.