The Fractal Dimension of the Apollonian Sphere Packing
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The fractal dimension of the Apollonian sphere packing has been computed numerically up to six trusty decimal digits. Based on the 31 944 875 541 924 spheres of radius greater than 2-19 contained in the Apollonian packing of the unit sphere, we obtained an estimate of 2.4739465, where the last digit is questionable. Two fundamentally different algorithms have been employed. Outlines of both algorithms are given.
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