We still haven't determined the exact boundary of how densely objects can be packed into higher-dimensional spaces.

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Sphere-packing problems are solved for a few specific dimensions, but the general pattern across all possible dimensions remains unknown. This affects fields ranging from error-correcting codes to theoretical physics.

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