To pack more into the same space you have to break bigger things down into smaller things. Is this robustly true? I imagine one gallon of flour weighs more than one gallon of wheat grains.
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But it’s a packing problem that depends on the shape. I imagine breaking up a bunch of cubes into random chunks would create a pile with higher volume than the original cubes optimally close-packed.
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Fun tangentially related fact; there’s no antonym of dense
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I would never describe a material as sparse just as I would never describe it as fluffy. Aluminum-lithium alloys are not sparse

