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Hm, the post gives a closed form for the area of the conjectured best ambidextrous sofa; is there one also for the area of the conjectured best sofa?
by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Hm, the post gives a closed form for the area of the conjectured best ambidextrous sofa; is there one also for the area of the conjectured best sofa?
- dnautics 6y agoyes, but the article says it's piecewise 15 parts. I imagine for brevity it's not in there.
- erk__ 6y agoIt is on the MathWorld article, and as you can imagine it is not that pretty https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MovingSofaProblem.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MovingSofaProblem.html
- beervirus 6y agoFrom the linked video, it sounds like there isn’t one. He says that some of the constants used in the equations defining the various curves don’t have a closed form.