Re: [math-fun] Greedily packing disks in a sector

Is the procedure uniquely defined? In fact, if some result is quasi-periodic, I suspect it won't be ... WFL On 12/19/12, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:

What do you get if you start packing unit disks in a 72-degree sector of the plane, placing each successive disk as close as possible to the corner? Some sort of quasiperiodic structure?

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