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It's not just fictional sitcom characters who struggle with navigating an oversized sofa around a tight corner. Mathematicians have their own version of the problem, and have spent the last six decades trying to not just find the largest shape to pivot around a square corner, but actually prove it.
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It's not just fictional sitcom characters who struggle with navigating an oversized sofa around a tight corner. Mathematicians have their own version of the problem, and have spent the last six decades trying to not just find the largest shape to pivot around a square corner, but actually prove it.
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