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Iain Johnston
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What's the biggest sofa you can move round a right-angled corridor one metre wide? One of my favourite "easy to ask, hard to answer" maths problems has a [claimed] solution after many, many decades (!) of work arxiv.org/abs/2411.19826
(GIF from https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2015/01/15/hammersley-sofa/)
2024-12-06T20:18:44.653Z