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From: jankok@zuring.UUCP (Jan Kok)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Largest 2-d object around 90-degree corner?
Message-ID: <260@zuring.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 09:54:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 09:54:21 1985
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In article <167@oasys.UUCP> bundy@oasys.UUCP writes:
>. . . .  What is the biggest
>two dimensional rigid body that can fit around the turn and can also
>slide freely down both corridors:
> . . . 
I have seen the problem been posed about 15 years ago
by Hammersley in a British journal.
The solution method is elementary and I won't spoil it for you.
-- 
jan kok, cwi (afd. nw), amsterdam, nederland
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