#mathematics #geometry #cafés

There was a claim that a circle on a curved surface will always conain the vertices of a square that lie in one plane.

Differently put: You can always rotate a square table to find a position where it doesn't wobble.

There was a paper, I think — unfortunately I don't remember where I read it, nor whether it confirmed or refuted the claim.

I've done a couple of tests in cafeś — in case you see someone sitting at a diagonally rotated table in a café in Berlin.

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@jkanev This would only apply here if the legs were the same length and the curvature is only along one axis, right? So, did you measure those? :-)

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