Re: [Haskell-cafe] Health effects

[Adrian Neumann]

I often wonder how many cuts you need to divide a steak in n pieces. You can obviously get n pieces with (sqrt n) cuts by cutting a grid. But I'm sure some smart mathematician thought of a (log n) way.

Adrian

Am 29.09.2008 um 21:43 schrieb Andrew Coppin:

The other day, I sat down to eat a 2 Kg block of chocolate - one of those ones that's divided into lots of little squares. I proceeded to recursively subdivide it into smaller and smaller blocks, and then eat the individual squares in depth-first order. It was only after getting through 16 of the things that I stopped to notice that the whole bar just happens to have an exact power of two squares on it.

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And it was some time after *that* when I thought to myself "...woah, maybe do too much Haskell?" o_O Seriously, who recursively subdivides their food? I think I have something wrong with me...

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