Simon Brenner wrote:
2kg of chocolate 'thunks' to 'force' really might 'blow your stack' later
on.
Oh my god, this one made me laugh so hard I almost choked on the piece of
chocolate I was just eating.
It should definitely make it into HWN Quotes of the Week...
Cheers
Ben
The Wikipedia says:
For a finite set of points in the plane, each colored red or
blue,
there is a line that simultaneously bisects the red points and bisects
the blue points, that is, the number of red points on either side
of the
line is equal and the number of blue points on either side
Adrian Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does this work with more than two colours? i.e. can I recursively
subdivide the halves into quarters with another cut?
I don't think so.
In order to divide a group, a line needs to pass through somewhere in
the middle, or more precisely, it must
It seems like if your primitive operation is break bar in two you
need exactly n-1 breaks to get n squares, no matter what choice you
make for where to break along the chocolate grid. This is a simple
consequence of the fact that each break increases the number of pieces
by one.
If you're
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:54:17 +0200, Adrian Neumann
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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.
Good thing
Benjamin L.Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Russell
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Adrian Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
Are you allowed to move the pieces between
Jon Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adrian Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
Are we assuming the bars to have an even distribution of mass along
the whole body?
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Achim Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jon Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adrian Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I often wonder how many cuts you need to divide a
Adrian Neumann aneumann at inf.fu-berlin.de writes:
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.
You might try the ham sandwich
Throw the no free lunch-theorem on top of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Dominic Steinitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adrian Neumann aneumann at inf.fu-berlin.de writes:
I often wonder how many cuts you need to divide a steak in n
Achim Schneider wrote:
Jon Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adrian Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:54:17 +0200, Adrian Neumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On 2008 Oct 1, at 15:56, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:54:17 +0200, Adrian Neumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 20:56 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
. . .
You know, it's interesting... I posted this in another forum, and people
just said dude, why would you try to eat a whole 2 Kg of chocolate?
That's really unhealthy. I post the same thing here and now people are
arguing about
Andrew Coppin wrote:
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
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