'Ant on a rubber rope' Wikipedia page

[guysensei1]

Some time ago, I came across this page on Wikipedia. The problem is interesting, and I understood it.

There used to be a small part on the bottom that said something like 'One can stack a block, such that it overhangs off the table, and put more blocks on the first one to make the overhang arbitrarily large.' Now, it seems to have been removed for some reason. Or maybe I saw it somewhere else. I don't know.


Any explanation or illustration on how such a stacking can be done?

Thanks.

 

[willem2]

I can't find the problem in the edit history of the page, but it seems to be this problem

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BookStackingProblem.html

which also involves the sum of the harmonic series.

 

[guysensei1]

I can't find the problem in the edit history of the page, but it seems to be this problem

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BookStackingProblem.html

which also involves the sum of the harmonic series.

This was the problem I was looking for! Thanks!