{"id":266257,"date":"2024-12-09T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/moving-sofa-problem-mathematicians-have-figured-out-the-best-sofa-shape-for-moving-around\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:12","slug":"moving-sofa-problem-mathematicians-have-figured-out-the-best-sofa-shape-for-moving-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/moving-sofa-problem-mathematicians-have-figured-out-the-best-sofa-shape-for-moving-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving sofa problem: Mathematicians have figured out the best sofa shape for moving around"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is the largest sofa that you can squeeze around the corner of a hallway? A horseshoe-shaped piece of furniture known as Gerver\u2019s sofa has officially taken the crown, solving a mathematical question first put forward almost 60 years ago.<\/p>\n

The difficulties of getting large furniture into your home will be familiar to many people, but mathematicians have taken a particular interest in the moving sofa problem ever since it was first posed by Leo Moser in 1966. It supposes that you are trying to navigate a two-dimensional sofa (so ignoring\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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