Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!One of the biggest frustrations a person usually has after moving into a new flat is finding that the sofa is not placed where you want it to be.The next thing you know, you're trying to lift a couch and carry it up some stairs and around a corner yelling 'PIVOT!' at your exhausted friends holding the other end of the furniture.But Friends references aside, even mathematicians are stumped when it's time to move the couch.
For decades they have been searching for a solution to this issue, but they still have no definite answer.First posed by mathematician Leo Moser in 1996, it is commonly known as the ‘moving sofa problem'.Moser asked: 'What is the shape of largest area in the plane that.
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