Question

Imagine lots of people in a park, sitting in the Sun. Each person wants to keep at least 2m distance to everyone else, but they want to have as many people as possible at the minimum 2m distance. How should the people arrange themselves to make this happen? And what's the number of people a person will have exactly 2m away from themselves in this arrangement?

Answer 1

like a beehive ... a hexagon with 2m edges
... a person at each vertex and one in the center

each person has 6 people around them