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Originally Posted by davieddy
Since Mally has gone off in a huff, I shall put this teaser to you.
A four legged table typically rocks when placed on an unlevel floor.
However, with two simple assumptions, you can rectify the
problem by rotating the table through an angle <90 degrees.
How come? and what are the assumptions?
David
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I can do better: ONE simple assumption:
The height of the floor at each point is uniformly random. [the interval
does not matter]