moving sofa problem

English
The Hammersley sofa has area 2.2074 but is not the largest solution

Proper noun

the moving sofa problem

  1. (mathematics) A two-dimensional idealization of furniture-moving problems, asking for the rigid two-dimensional shape of largest area that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped planar region with legs of unit width.
    Synonym: sofa problem
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