{"id":5822,"date":"2019-07-29T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kolabtree.com\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2021-05-28T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T11:23:37","slug":"friends-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolabtree.com\/blog\/friends-pivot\/","title":{"rendered":"How a freelance mathematician solved the Friends “Pivot” scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the iconic scene from Friends<\/em>, 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\u00a0tilt<\/em> that would have helped get the sofa successfully up to Ross’s apartment.<\/p>\n

The expert who has helped solve this problem is Kolabtree freelancer Caroline Zabarowski<\/a> (Zunckel). Cow PR, a London-based PR agency, posted the project on Kolabtree<\/a> on behalf of their client, SpareRoom. They were looking for a freelance mathematician<\/a> to come up with a formula for the best way to get a sofa into an apartment, especially one without a lift and a flight of stairs.<\/p>\n