Slicing a pizza the mathematician way
There’s no limit to creativity. Maybe time, but it still tends to infinite. Therefore it has no limit either. What about pizzas? Well, pizzas can have a limit. You slice it traditionally in \(S = 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, …, n \) slices or as an alternative, cut it on segments. It’s not very common to encounter a pizza slice in segments outside Latin America. However, yesterday, one tweet brought it to my attention to one of these online challenges requiring the follower to slice a pizza into three equal parts, defining only two segments. ...