Friday, January 2, 2015
The Capital-O of Stacking Blocks
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It's 2015 for goodness sake. Here's a new-to-me approach to an eerily familiar problem: how far over the edge of a table can a stack of identical frictionless blocks hang, as a function of the number of blocks? The historic hegemony of harmonic hang-over makes way for a New Order-of. https://math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/papers/maxover.pdf
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