@article {Paterson:2009:0002-9890:19, author = "Paterson, Mike and Zwick, Uri", title = "Overhang", journal = "American Mathematical Monthly", volume = "116", number = "1", year = "2009", abstract = "How far off the edge of a table can we reach by stacking n identical, homogeneous, frictionless blocks? A classical solution achieving a logarithmic overhang was widely believed to be optimal. We show, however, that this classical solution is exponentially far from optimality.", pages = "19-44", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maa/amm/2009/00000116/00000001/art00002", doi = "doi:10.4169/193009709X469797" }