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How to keep four feet on the ground

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Mathematical proof ends wobbly table woes.

Do you always get the wobbly table at restaurants and cafés? Don't despair. A physicist has proved that, within reasonable limits, it is always possible to rotate the table to a position where all four legs stand solidly on the ground.

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  1. MartinA., et al. preprint, http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0510065 (2005).

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Ball, P. How to keep four feet on the ground. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news051024-3

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