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- From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Subject: Re: Geometrical parking problem.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.153536.1374@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
- References: <1992Nov17.225821.6579@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> <1992Nov18.101107.29182@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.143131.25971@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> <Bxys1K.4Fo@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:35:36 GMT
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- In article <Bxys1K.4Fo@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> deghare@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Hare) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.143131.25971@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>A car of length L reverses into a parking space without touching the kerb.
- >>>>Has anyone calculated the minimum theoretical length of the parking space?
- >> Actually, there is no MINIMUM. The length of the car is not quite enough,
- >> but the length of the car plus epsilon (for any positive epsilon) is enough.
- >
- >Is everybody taking into account the fact that rear wheels don't (generally)
- >turn?
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- Yes.
- >
- >Dave Hare
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- Carl Mueller
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