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Clip from Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums  |  Season 2  |  Episode 2  |  SBS2  |  December 14, 2015

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A demonstration of how Johannes Kepler's sphere packing conjecture can calculate how high cannonballs can be stacked.

A demonstration of how Johannes Kepler's sphere packing conjecture can calculate how high cannonballs can be stacked.

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