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Re:How far can you overhang blocks? by pradn on Sunday May 26, 2013 @06:14PM (#5772622)
The problem of finding the maximum overhang has been recently solved. The resulting construction is more complex than the one described in this article.

http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/papers/maxover.pdf

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Re:How far can you overhang blocks? by darrhiggs on Sunday May 26, 2013 @06:24PM (#5772652)
The article uses the constraint of only allowing one block per level.
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Re:How far can you overhang blocks? by huhtenberg on Monday May 27, 2013 @02:31AM (#5773677)
It is also less interesting as they balance out the overhang by extending bricks in other direction.
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Re:How far can you overhang blocks? by lkozma on Monday May 27, 2013 @07:58AM (#5774314)
Why does it make it less interesting? Overall they achieve more overhang for the same number of bricks than the other construction, n^(1/3) instead of log(n).
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