The Lazy Way to Cut Pizza - Numberphile
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Published 2024-08-12
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All Comments (21)
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Labelling pieces using bits of pineapple is such an obvious comment bait that I'm fully on board with it.
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Numberphile 2014: The scientific way to cut a cake. Numberphile 2024: The lazy way to cut a pizza.
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Truly a mathematician's sort of pizza; reducing it to a bare minimum set of ingredients that have been known to make up a pizza (even if they're in an unconventional form), calling it a previously solved problem, and not even bothering to bake it :p
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Making the world's worst pizza in a library is exactly the kind of insanity I originally subscribed to this channel for
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Never beating the "The English Can't Cook" allegations with this one
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Now that we know that there is a cut pattern that makes 1+n(n+1)/2 pieces out of n cuts, we could ask about fairness is several ways: - What is the pattern that makes the smallest piece the biggest? - What is the pattern that makes the biggest piece the smallest? - What is the pattern that minimizes the variance of the area of the pieces? - Are some of those questions equivalent?
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Mathematics wants to show up everywhere.
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2:05 "but obviously this one's quite small and no one wants it" I'd say the size isn't even the biggest issue; after all you could rearrange the cuts to make that middle piece bigger if you want. But it'd still be a bad slice of pizza since it doesn't have any outer crust, and thus cannot be easily picked up to eat without getting toppings all over your hands
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I love the enthusiasm of this guy.
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Next subject : The Lazy Way to Cut Pizza "fairly".
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The pineapple numbers! 😂 I love this attempt at keeping the engagement in the comments high. 😁
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"Pizza is not one of my favorites." Literally cannot be trusted now.
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12:35 Missed opportunity to have a "tortilla change" transition in the style of the old "paper change" transition.
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Italians everywhere will be engaged by the butchering of their most classic cuisine 😅
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1:00 that IS a good circle!
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The lazy way to cut pizza starts with a tortilla, I see you are going full laziness... 😂
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Love the detail of the little pizza-loving rat in the animations 😊
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You are not a true mathematician unless you spend hours playing with your food.
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Looks like how I would cut a pizza when I was in college and drunk! It was usually burnt too.
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It really is incredible how mathematicians are able to make simple things complicated. 😂
