Hexagons are the most scientifically efficient packing shape, as bee honeycomb proves.

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Excerpted from Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers by Marc Chamberland. Out now from Princeton University Press.

Kelly Nelson (@Kelims23) / X

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Hexagons are the most scientifically efficient packing shape, as bee honeycomb proves.

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