Coulomb, surface, and curvature energies per nucleon, f_{Coul + surf + curv} (teal dash-dotted lines), translational free energy per nucleon, f_trans (violet dashed lines), and their sum (black solid lines) as a function of A at k_BT = 1 MeV and n_B = 0.04 fm⁻³ (upper panel) and n_B = 0.05 fm⁻³ (lower panel) for the BSk24 model. The red star in each panel indicates the solution for A from the minimisation.