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New record. 148 tetrahedra in a loop such that the gap at the end has error 7 . 10^-14. So instead of the diameter of a proton, we (Mike Elgersman and I) are now down to the radius of a proton. Our previous record was 174 tetrahedra with a gap of...
Since a 3-member ring is allowed, I understood the problem to be like growth of a freely-jointed polymer chain, where the octahedra may be linked by both axial and edge connections.  This seems to rule out simple symmetry operations to count the...