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The moving sofa problem (2016)

• herogreen 8y ago
  I was expecting the new problem to be a turn with an varying angle (not 90°).
• dang 8y ago
  2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17527702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17527702 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296502
  • turtlegrids 8y ago
    and welcome to 2019! ;)
• escapecharacter 8y ago
  So where can I actually buy one of these sofas? I want to shock my mathematician friends.
  • Isamu 8y ago
    The true "problem" with moving a sofa is finding available friends on a weekend.
• amanzi 8y ago
  Pivot! Pivot! Pivot!
• pacifist 8y ago
  Back when I had a truck and a good back I helped friends move their couch into an apartment. It was close but I somehow managed to get it in. They told me later that they weren't able to get it back out no matter how hard they tried. Is this an example of the moving sofa problem?