Ricordate la scena iconica di Amici, in which Ross tries to get his new sofa up the stairs, with the help of Chandler and Rachel? “P-I-V-O-T!” he yells, as the three of them struggle to manoeuvre the couch. Now, 20 years after the episode was released, the solution to the problem has been found by a freelance mathematician. It turns out that the trick was to find the correct angle of inclinazione that would have helped get the sofa successfully up to Ross’s apartment.
L'esperto che ha aiutato a risolvere questo problema è Kolabtree freelancer Caroline Zabarowski (Zunckel). Cow PR, un'agenzia di PR con sede a Londra, ha pubblicato il progetto su Kolabtree per conto del loro cliente, SpareRoom. Stavano cercando un matematico freelance per trovare una formula per il miglior modo di portare un divano in un appartamento, specialmente uno senza ascensore e senza una rampa di scale.
Once the project was posted on Kolabtree, they received six proposals from mathematicians and data scientists worldwide. The proposal that stood out was a detailed breakdown of the problem from Caroline, an astrophysicist with a PhD in Astrofisica from the University of Oxford, and several years of experience working in scienza dei dati e matematica.
Presentando il problema in modo diagrammatico e lavorando attraverso 10.000 simulazioni, Caroline ha proposto la seguente equazione per trovare il corretto angolo di inclinazione verticale:
Angle of vertical tilt = 44.15064 – (11.94274 x WS) + (8.69119 x WC) + (3.65961 x LC)
dove WS è la larghezza della scala, WC la larghezza del divano e LC la lunghezza del divano.
Pretty cool, right? Here’s an infographic explaining the moves Ross would have had to make to keep his previous new sofa in his apartment:
Immagine per gentile concessione di SpareRoom
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