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[-] palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

Aren't Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the "walls" than any shape?

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 18 points 9 hours ago

This here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

The honeycomb theorem is actually better than that: there isn't any way to divide up the plane with equal-area shapes (even if it's not a tiling in the sense of having any pattern) it won't be better than hexagons.

But that video can die in a fire!

this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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