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Part of the results came from a computer search.","gist":"The paper studies packing chromatic numbers of the hexagonal lattice and of strips of the square lattice, giving exact values in some cases and new upper bounds in others, partly by computer search.","meaning":"A packing colouring gives each vertex a label so that vertices sharing label i must be more than i steps apart. The packing chromatic number is the fewest labels needed to do this. The claim fixes this number at exactly 7 for the hexagonal (honeycomb) lattice, which settles a value for this regular structure. 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