Re: [math-fun] Re: Kissing number.

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Steve Gray wrote:

In "Kepler's Conjecture" by George Szpiro, it says that the naive angle-occupying calculation in 3-D gives an absolute upper bound of 14.9 spheres. This is just a solid-angle calculation. This should be easy to recompute by hand.

Thanks for this. I should have said "doesn't give 12" , rather than "gives 13". John Conway