Kissing Numbers

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Who am I kidding? i would've tempted fate and brought it up had I the chance to.

Truth is (grumble, grumble) that I'm still settling into a new curriculum in a new semester in a new classroom ... with ancient tecnhology. The PC is probably older than my high school students. It's slow and the monitor is distorted. I can barely do my work let alone squeeze in a little extra. And then there's all the translating I have to do because there isn't anyone else there to do it. Did I mention "grumble, grumble"?

Okay, so "kissing numbers" was, in fact, the subject of the February 14 math calendar entry, and the writeup fell to me. (Okay, so I volunteered it.) Rather than a cartoon, I just did a straight explanation, so I didn't publish it as Monday's cartoon.

So six cirlces can kiss one circle at one time, and 12 spheres can kiss a sphere at one time.

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