Mathematical table turning revisited — mentioned by mauvehaus

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:45:30 GMT

Possibly dumb question: Will this work for tables where there is no point of rotation that the equal-length legs are equidistant from? I.e. there's no point of rotational symmetry as far as the legs are concerned. It seems that the argument is predicated on the idea that after rotating the table 90 degrees, there's a leg in the same location on the ground as there was before rotating the table 90 degrees. The linked paper [0] goes so far as to cover the case of rectangular tables, but it's quite common to have trapezoidal arrangements of legs, on e.g. a demilune table. Chairs also often have…

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Mathematical table turning revisited — mentioned by mauvehaus