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Overhang
Mike Paterson, Uri Zwick
How far off the edge of the table can we reach by stacking identical, homogeneous, frictionless blocks of length 1? A classical solution achieves an overhang of , wher…
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Maximum overhang
Mike Paterson, Yuval Peres, Mikkel Thorup +2
How far can a stack of identical blocks be made to hang over the edge of a table? The question dates back to at least the middle of the 19th century and the answer to it was wi…