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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:21, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Penny graph

 * ... that, no matter how $n$ non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, at least $0.258n$ of them will not touch each other? Source: The original source, Swanepoel 2002, is subscription-only, but the same result is cited by Dumitrescu and Jiang. See the first paragraph of section 3: "Swanepoel further raised it to 8n/31".
 * Reviewed: Emergency Alert System misactivation of 2005

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 22:56, 19 February 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg - Length, Date, Earwigs, QPQ, and Cite check. Mifter Public (talk) 17:06, 23 February 2017 (UTC)