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We show that in contrast to the classical infinite packing problem, even in the Euclidian plane, the solutions to several finite packing problems are non-lattice packings if the number of translates is large enough. This answers, in particular, a question by Paul Erdos [E].
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Schürmann On Extremal Finite Packings. Discrete Comput Geom 28, 389–403 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-002-0747-6
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