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Re:The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above by azepoi on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:05PM (#24324136)
Square packing density is pi/4 (~78.54%). The non regular packing approaches a hexagonal packing (pi*sqrt(3)/6 =~ 90.69%) for large N. For N=120 for example d=85% http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/csq/csq120.html

Does not seem practical in reality (39 or more systems instead of one). Maybe for extremely vast fields where you would have many systems anyway.

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Re:The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above by neolog on Sunday August 30, 2020 @07:36PM (#24326952)
> 39 or more systems instead of one

They would need more irrigation systems if they packed the circles more tightly? Why?

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Re:The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above by nitrogen on Monday August 31, 2020 @02:53AM (#24329093)
The circles have to be smaller to be packed more tightly within a given square.
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