Earl Colby Pottinger wrote:
590 if LocalGravity 0 then goto 380

You don't terminate the beanstalk at this point.
You terminate it when the tension meets the pull of the counterweight
you plan to install, or for overall minimum mass simply keep doing the sums
out until the tension falls to a similar level to the initial preload on
the bottom, and there put a tiny counterweight.

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