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Bricks are 20cm long and 10cm high. How high could an arch be built without mortar on a flat horizontal surface, to overhang by 1 metre? How big an overhang is it possible to make like this?
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Notice that $$1^2 = {1\times 2\times 3 \over 6}$$ $$1^2 + 3^2 =
{3\times 4\times 5 \over 6}$$ $$1^2 + 3^2 + 5^2 = {5\times 6\times
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