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Millions of Unequal Particles Packed in Hours

An Adam-based inflation code handled size ratios near five hundred thousand and as many as 5.6 million particles.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-13-016
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Summary

An Adam-based inflation code handled size ratios near five hundred thousand and as many as 5.6 million particles.

The released generator uses coordinate-specific adaptive steps to keep optimization moving across extreme diameter ranges. Three-dimensional tests reached packing fractions near 0.87 in minutes to hours on a multicore machine. The results are numerical packings, not a universal material law.

Why it matters

An Adam-based inflation code handled size ratios near five hundred thousand and as many as 5.6 million particles.

Limits and context

  • The results are numerical packings, not a universal material law.

Key claims

  1. An Adam-based inflation code handled size ratios near five hundred thousand and as many as 5.6 million particles.

    Qualification: The results are numerical packings, not a universal material law.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-13-018

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.12235arXiv · primary research

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