11:39pm, 2 Oct 2011
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Due to a beautiful mathematical result involving the “harmonic series”, it turns out you can stack books with as much overhang as you want:

And, of course, planking needs no introduction:

But why, oh WHY, have these two things never been combined?
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wintermorning said:
Maybe because me freaking the heck out would cause the pile to be unstable which would upset the beautiful principle at work? This, though, is the first group-building exercise that might actually work!
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thakker posted this