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========== Hungry for some pizza?We all like a good pizza pie to chow down on, but it turns outthere's a simple scientific solution
to maximize your pizza experience.It all comes down to the area of a circle - that equation you may have heard of when you were young,where the area is equal to pi*r²."r" being the radius.If we plug in some numbers, you may notice something interesting.For example, since we measure pizza in inches in North America,the area of an 8 inch pizza is roughly 50 square inches.We simply take the radius of the pizza
which is half of the diameter,so 4 inches in this case, put it in the equation
and voila.But if we do the same thing for a
16-inch pizza,which has a diameter that is two times bigger,we find that, even though your intuitio...