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Finite Sphere Packings and the Methods of Blichfeldt and Rankin

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Wills, J.M. Finite Sphere Packings and the Methods of Blichfeldt and Rankin. Acta Mathematica Hungarica 75, 337–342 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006501806853

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