I Why does (100) and (010) have the shortest reciprocal lattic

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Can anyone explain why the two planes (100) and (010) in the HCP structure have the shortest reciprocal lattice vectors?
I mean it says {001}, but why is (001) not included?
 
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In the HCP structure you stack alternating layers in a ABAB... sequence. The (001) d-spacing is the distance between two A layers, and that is larger than the (100) d-spacing which is simply the diameter of the (hypothetical) spheres you stack.
 
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