Abstract
By a recent result, the number of common tangent lines to four unit balls in ℝ3 is bounded by 12 unless the four centres are collinear. In the present paper, this result is complemented by showing that indeed every number of tangents k ∈ {0, …, 12} can be established in real space. The constructions combine geometric and algebraic aspects of the tangent problem.
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