The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:09AM from the equal-distribution-of-the-pie dept.

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."

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Maybe by BeanThere · 2009-12-15 05:27 · Score: 4, Insightful

a slightly foreign concept here, but usually the woman/women get(s) the smaller pieces and everyone's happy. Simple.
1. Re:Maybe by Nadaka · 2009-12-15 05:49 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I am 6ft tall. My fiance is 4ft 9in and about half my weight. If I ate as little as she did, I would starve. If she ate as much as I did, she would pop. There is nothing misogynistic about it, women are on average smaller than men, they will eat less.