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gömböc
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Also known as gomboc, mono-monostatic body

thumb|upright=1.2|A gömböc in the stable equilibrium position

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Gömböc
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2006-00-00
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gömböc
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2006-00-00
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thumb|upright=1.2|A gömböc in the stable equilibrium position

A gömböc () is any member of a class of convex, three-dimensional and homogeneous bodies that are mono-monostatic, meaning that they have just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium when resting on a flat surface. The existence of this class was conjectured by the Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold in 1995 and proven in 2006 by the Hungarian scientists Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi by constructing at first a mathematical example and subsequently a physical example.

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