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
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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 allow
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 i
Achim Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
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 si
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 a
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. Bu
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 o
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
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 inf.fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
>>
>> I often wonder how many cuts you need to divide a steak in n pieces.
Adrian Neumann 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 theore
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 t
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 (l
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
Benjamin L.Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russell
>
Any relationship?
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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 a (log n) way.
Good thing
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 afte
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