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I proved 1.3 million Earths DON'T fit inside the Sun!

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They say you can fit 1.3 million Earths in the Sun... but according to sphere packing math, my own Python code, a scale model; that can't be true. Let's find out how many Earth's actually fit in the Sun.

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