Stuart Langridge on Nostr: Hey, #maths types. New #numberphile video about "the lazy caterer's sequence", ...
Hey, #maths types. New #numberphile video about "the lazy caterer's sequence", maximising the number of pieces you can cut a pizza into with straight-line cuts by ensuring that each cut intersects all previous cuts, so that after n cuts you've got 1+Σn pieces. But doing it the obvious way tends to give lots of tiny little triangular bits. Has anyone looked into how to keep the slices as close to equal as possible? I can't find anything. Is it not even remotely possible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9UZSodeN8Published at
2024-08-12 14:44:10Event JSON
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