What's The Largest Sofa That Can Fit Around a Corner?
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 Published On May 25, 2023

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Chapters
0:00 The Moving Sofa Problem
2:06 Hammersley's sofa
3:15 Gerver's Sofa
3:55 Why is it so hard?
5:34 How Gerver came up with his sofa
9:50 Thank you Brilliant!
11:23 Will you find a bigger sofa?



Creator - Jade Tan-Holmes
Script - Alexander Berkes
Animations - Daniel Kouts and Simon Mackenzie
Music - epidemicsound.com

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