Tammes problem
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File:Coral Sphere Flynn Reef.jpg
Some natural systems such as this coral require approximate solutions to problems similar to the Tammes problem
In geometry, Tammes problem is a problem in packing a given number of circles on the surface of a sphere such that the minimum distance between circles is maximized. It is named after a Dutch botanist who posed the problem in 1930 while studying the distribution of pores on pollen grains. It can be viewed as a specialization of the generalized Thomson problem.
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