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Heesch's problem
Heesch's problem, named for geometer Heinrich Heesch, concerns the number of layers of congruent copies of a geometric figure (usually a polygon) that can surround that figure. For instance, a square may be surrounded by infinitely many layers of congruent squares in the square tiling, while a circle cannot be surrounded by even a single layer of congruent circles without leaving some gaps.
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