Saturday, 14. February 2004

Topic: NEWS english - on February 14, 2004 at 1:47:00 AM CET

Maths secrets of M&Ms revealed

M&M sweets pack together more densely than perfect spheres when randomly jumbled in a container, scientists say.

Same-sized spheres were previously thought to have the highest "packing fraction" - the relative density of objects when shoved in a container.

¬> bbc

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