A serious problem has cropped up in supermarkets, where fresh, ripe apples are piled up high in beckoning pyramids. Surely, as the heights of the pyramids increase, the bottom-most apples will be crushed, particularly those in the center under the apexes. A theoretical analysis of the problem by J. Grindlay doesn't help much. Thus, common-sense expectations, experimental measurements, and theoretical calculations lead to three different results.
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