NOBEL PRIZE ALERT

What’s the largest couch that can turn a corner? After 58 years, we finally know

(Thanks to Alkali Bill, who says "It takes 119 pages to solve, so I doubt couch-moving guys will read it.")

Comments

[MOTW]

".. as frontier math grows more abstruse, mathematicians hold a special fondness for unsolved problems that anybody can understand."

Husband:
Math .. the final frontier
These are the solutions of the geometry enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to solve new strife and new moving violations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Wife: Can you just shut up and lift your end of the sofa already?

[Rod]

Now he's ready to tackle the old college matter of how many people you can get into a phone booth.

Then again, where would they find a phone booth to verify the solution?

[1, 2, 3, PUSH!]

In a pinch there's always Crisco.

[Guin]

Note to self: When furniture-shopping, bring Jineon Baek with you.

[Prairie Cynic]

There is no Nobel prize in mathematics. Perhaps he'd get the Economics prize?

[Bill Moore]

Joey figured that out years ago.

[Fung Shwaye]

Next time, buy a couch with 4-wheel steering.

[Sofa King Lazy]

A man walks into a sofa... Couch!

[wanderer2575]

Will this be of any help to people who are trying to figure out how to get a newly-purchased mattress into a Honda Civic?

[Ron G in WA]

Douglas Adams fans know that one can always just use a time machine to manifest a door in the wall and give yourself a little extra clearance for the sofa to make it around the bend.

[wiredog]

Isn't this what chainsaws were invented for?

[MAC]

Pivot!