The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282
iamapizza writes "New Scientist reports on the quest of two math boffins for the perfect way to slice a pizza. It's an interesting and in-depth article; 'The problem that bothered them was this. Suppose the harried waiter cuts the pizza off-center, but with all the edge-to-edge cuts crossing at a single point, and with the same angle between adjacent cuts. The off-center cuts mean the slices will not all be the same size, so if two people take turns to take neighboring slices, will they get equal shares by the time they have gone right round the pizza — and if not, who will get more?' This is useful, of course, if you're familiar with the concept of 'sharing' a pizza."
Unsure. (Score:5, Funny)
My biggest pizza cutting dilemma happened just the other day. I wasn't sure I could eat six pieces, so I cut it into four.
Re:Unsure. (Score:5, Funny)
A standard pizza is usually cut in 8 pieces. Who cuts it into 6?
It was a Metric pizza
Re:Limewire (Score:5, Funny)
"You wouldn't copy a pizza, would you?"
Re:Unsure. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Unsure. (Score:5, Funny)
4 whole pieces? (Score:5, Funny)
Also, when people ask what I had for breakfast, I can respond with "A wrap"
Re:Wait, what? (Score:2, Funny)
11 (Score:5, Funny)
I always maximize my pizza by cutting it into 11 pieces. That way I get much more pizza than most people. I get 11 slices.
Re:Unsure. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's not that hard (Score:1, Funny)
5)Pizza is a food that can be eaten by humans
6)Pizza is not a cat
7)Though, cats may eat Pizza.
8)A Pizza that has saurkrout on it, is not a good pizza.
9)Pizza begins with the letter "Q"
10)Deep fried Pizza is called "awesome Pizza"
Multidimensional Pizza (Score:4, Funny)
Okay, so a three dimensional pizza would be a calzone, but what would a four-dimensional pizza look like?
More importantly, on a four-dimensional pizza, can you fill the crust with cheese?
Re:Unsure. (Score:5, Funny)
This thread is going nowhere.
Re:Maybe (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe she likes her some pizza.
Re:Unsure. (Score:2, Funny)
I used to cringe every time my ex-girlfriend ordered a pizza, because instead of asking "What's the diameter of your large pizza?" or even just "How big is the large?", she would always ask "How many slices is that?"
It took everything I had not to blurt out profane insults about her intelligence. But somehow I always managed to keep my composure and say calmly "Don't ask that. Ask them what the diameter is."
Thankfully, my wife is a lot smarter than my ex, so I don't get those sudden surges in my blood pressure anymore.
Back in the day... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Divide it first (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Unsure. (Score:3, Funny)
Where I live it the local pie (called Vlaai) is traditionally cut into 10 slices.
Being able to so qualifies you as a local, although some smart soul created a cutting template and later on a round knife that will just cut all slices in one cut.
Re:Maybe (Score:3, Funny)
The mechanics must be.....interesting. :)
Physicist Pizza (Score:5, Funny)
Are we talking perfectly round, frictionless pizzas?
Re:Unsure. (Score:1, Funny)
I want a pizza that goes to 11.
Re:Unsure. (Score:5, Funny)
More likely metric would follow the pattern of paper sizing, so an A0 pizza would have an area of 1 square meter (for a diameter of ~ 113cm), an A1 pizza would be 0.5 square meters (diameter 80cm), A2 would have half that area and so on. A typical pizza would be A4 : an area of one sixteenth of a square meter, so a diameter of close to 30 cm.
Then there's the B series, which works in the same way, but starting from B0 having an area of 0.5 square meters, and with the inclusion of anchovys.
Re:Triangles or Squares? (Score:3, Funny)
I like my pizza cut in 8 nice triangular slices. My wife likes squares. I actually cut half in slices, and half in squares.
I like triangles, but I cut it into 6 instead. I can't eat 8 pieces.