Kiss number + close contact problem

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Someone just asked “ Kiss count ”（Kissing Number）, How many unit balls can a unit ball contact at the same time ？ Wrote a concise answer , Turn around by the way . The answer is 12. What is interesting is the number of kisses in different dimensions . 1,2,3,4 dimension , The number of kisses is 2,6,12,24. Greater than ４ dimension when , No conclusion . But the dimension is equal to 24 when , On the contrary, there is an accurate answer , The number of kisses is 196560. This is because 24 Dimensional time has many symmetric groups that are easy to use . ​​​

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