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A080866
Number of equal shortest edges in the solutions of the Tammes' problem.
1
1, 3, 6, 6, 12, 12, 16, 18, 19, 25, 30, 24, 28
OFFSET
2,2
COMMENTS
A conjectured continuation of the sequence starting with n=15 would be: 30 32 34 34 34 39 40 42 43 60 48 46 52 52 54 63 60 66 66 68 66 72 66 72 76 78 81 85 82 88 84 91 89 120 96 102.
In the visualization given at the link the shortest edges are those drawn as golden color rods.
REFERENCES
See under A080865.
LINKS
Hugo Pfoertner, Arrangement of points on a sphere. Visualization of the best known solutions of the Tammes' problem.
Hugo Pfoertner, Table of edge lengths.
CROSSREFS
Cf. A080865.
Sequence in context: A279625 A012212 A232941 * A310131 A066393 A127777
KEYWORD
hard,nonn
AUTHOR
Hugo Pfoertner, Feb 21 2003
STATUS
approved