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Science 13 February 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5916, p. 875
DOI: 10.1126/science.323.5916.875
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JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETINGS:
The Joys of Longer Hangovers

Barry Cipra

Mathematicians at the Joint Mathematics Meetings showed a better way to get an overhang with a large set of bricks by translating the problem of stacking bricks into a problem about random walks.

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