Reguläre Packungen mit Reuleaux-Dreiecken. (Regular packings with Reuleaux-triangles) (Q1087147)
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Reguläre Packungen mit Reuleaux-Dreiecken. (Regular packings with Reuleaux-triangles) (English)
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1987
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In the plane an isometry w maps a convex disc S to a congruent copy w(S). If \({\mathfrak w}\) is one of the 17 two-dimensional discrete groups of isometries and no two discs in \({\mathfrak w}(S):=\{w(S)| w\in {\mathfrak w}\}\) overlap then we have a \({\mathfrak w}\)-packing of S. Theorem: The densest \({\mathfrak w}\)-packing of a Reuleaux triangle occurs when \({\mathfrak w}\) is the group \({\mathfrak w}_ 2\) generated by two rotations of period 3.
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densest packing
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isometry
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Reuleaux triangle
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rotations
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