A Quick Cake Conundrum - Numberphile
A quick little problem from Cliff Stoll, who baked a birthday cake for Brady... More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ A trilogy of mathematical cake cutting videos... http://bit.l...
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Brady: "Careful, the Droste box." Thank you. Hey, it's Brady Haran's birthday. By way of wishing him happy birthday, I made him a cake. So let's give him a quarter of this cake. Let's just say oh, you know, let's divide this up. Brady: "It's a square, is it?" It's a square eight inches on a side, give or take. Let's divide it up and put a few Sprinkles over here. There you go, Brady. I'll put a candle right in the middle. Where's my candle? What'd I do with the candle? Let's cut it right along here, along here. I made sure that this is halfway along there and over there. Yep, we got a quarter of this out of here. Okay, now I've got a cake. Oh, it's a square cake missing one ...
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Brady: "Careful, the Droste box." Thank you. Hey, it's Brady Haran's birthday. By way of wishing him happy birthday, I made him a cake. So let's give him a quarter of this cake. Let's just say oh, you know, let's divide this up. Brady: "It's a square, is it?" It's a square eight inches on a side, give or take. Let's divide it up and put a few Sprinkles over here. There you go, Brady. I'll put a candle right in the middle. Where's my candle? What'd I do with the candle? Let's cut it right along here, along here. I made sure that this is halfway along there and over there. Yep, we got a quarter of this out of here. Okay, now I've got a cake. Oh, it's a square cake missing one ...
