The honeycomb theorem is actually better than that: there isn’t any way to divide up the plane with equal-area shapes (even if it’s not a tiling in the sense of having any pattern) it won’t be better than hexagons.
But that video can die in a fire!
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palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Aren’t Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the “walls” than any shape?
FishFace@piefed.social 6 days ago
Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This was my first thought.
A circle filled with hexagons!
Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 days ago
This here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically