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When spheres are swirled in a dish, stable ring patterns emerge for certain numbers of spheres ("magic numbers" such as 21) but not for others. (Courtesy, Max Planck Institute fur Molekulare Physiologie)
reported by: Kötter et al. in Physical Review E, December 1999