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A packing of congruent equilateral triangles in the plane is called complete, if only vertex points are common points of triangles, and every vertex point belongs to exactly two of the triangles. The authors exhibit complete packings of \(n\) congruent equilateral triangles for all even \(n\geq 42\). They are constructed from smaller conglomerates with only a few single vertex points, i.e. vertex points that belong to just one triangle. If the number of triangles is odd then there is always at least one single vertex point. The authors construct such nearly complete packings with just one vertex point for all odd \(n\geq 35\) and for \(n= 31\) triangles. Whether these numbers are minimal remains an open problem.