How is this not an xkcd comic?
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The spiral doesn't even cut it into pieces. It's still one
You must be looking for the article how to cut a pizza into multiple slices. This article was called 9 ways to cut a pizza.
Obviously a more USEFUL article would be 9 ways to cut a pizza into equal slices.
I definitely saw a comic strip about this exact thing being the right way to cut a pizza for one.
Followed by a demonstration of someone eating the whole thing in one long continuous grind without their hands.
You mean it's... One PIEEECCEEE?
/channeling Emily the Engineer cast energy
wouldn't the Babach-Tarski cut end up with both pizzas having the same size as the original?
Ok hear me out. Off center inequality is the best choice. It gives the most options for portion size, like maybe I don't want 2 slices. Maybe I only want 1.4 slices. With all others, that isn't possible.
You share your pizza ?
It's so you can start with the big slices, and then slowly eat the smaller slices until nothing else fits. It makes it so you don't end up with a half-eaten slice.
Man I had to look that last one up and I still don’t fully understand it.
It's pretty simple, really. There's a mathematical way of creating a complete cover of all points within a sphere in a finite number of subsets in such a way that those finite subsets can be rearranged into two complete spheres of the same size.
It's kind of like how there are exactly as many points between 0 and 1 on a number line as there are between 0 and 2, so if you take a 0 to 1 segment, and then multiply all distances by 2, you can cut it into two pieces with exactly as many points as the original 0 to 1.
This is the sort of thing that only works with mathematical abstractions, which is why it's paradoxical. You sure as heck can't do this with a pizza, even if it's technically isomorphic to a sphere.
Imagine a stretchy piece of elastic that doesn't change cross-section when pulled and doesn't snap back. (This is mathemagic elastic. A regular rubber band gets thinner and narrower in cross-section when pulled. Also they tend to snap back.)
Stretch it to twice its length and then cut it at the halfway point. You now have two stretchy pieces of elastic just like the first one.
If this bothers you that something is apparently being created from nothing, that's why Banach-Tarski is called a paradox.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA
Get ready for 24 minutes of not understanding anything
spiral cut and then lower it over a 3D printed spiral cone thing on top of a lazy susan. now everyone gets to cut a curved pizza ribbon from the bottom
the guests love it and post it all over their socials. the catering staff has a blast making fun of it (and posting it all over their socials)
Oh hey, I gots another technique!
https://piefed.social/c/cooking@lemmy.world/p/2056190/mildly-infuriating-my-dad-does-this-to-avoid-cutting-pepperoni
I recall reading somewhere that if you cut the pizza using the "off-center inequality" method, then have four people each take a piece plus the one directly across from it they will all end up with an equal amount of pizza.
That doesn't seem right. If you imagine moving the "off-centre" point towards the edge, then two of the slices will cover most of the pizza, so the remaining slices can't add up to enough.
It would make a fun geogebra animation.
Whats an apple beachball?


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