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In this chapter we discuss the problem of packing spheres in Euclidean space and of packing points on the surface of a sphere. The kissing number problem is an important special case of the latter, and asks how many spheres can just touch another sphere of the same size.

— John Horton Conway Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (1988)

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