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By catdynamics on July 24, 2006.

From CosmicVariance and Baez

Fun, high symmetry, exact solutions of the N-body Coulomb problem. From Cris Moore's web page at the Santa Fe Institute

Pretty. Everybody is doing it, might as well Google it on.

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