5 Sep
2003
5 Sep
'03
9:59 a.m.
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Schroeppel, Richard wrote: [giving the 46-star design, and saying:]
This must have been inspired by the recent science articles about the 3-D version of the problem for small clusters of atoms.
If by "this", you meant my question, not at all - I hadn't even seen that discussion. The 51-star problem has bugged me for quite some years now. I can't quite recall why I started to think about it again last night; perhaps it was because I saw some flag on TV? JHC