You know what it’s like when you get a Domnio’s delivered. You gotta be primed You gotta be ready. You’ve got to grab the big slices before anyone else does. Sure, it is cut into eight slices, but the size of those slices can vary massively. Some of them are tiny, yo.
That’s why the work of University of Liverpool mathematicians Joel Haddley and Stephen Worsley is so important. They’ve used all their academic resources to create a fool-proof method for cutting pizza into any number of equally-sized slices. It uses something called ‘monohedral disc tiling’, which creates “similar tilings from curved pieces with any odd number of sides—known as 5-gons, 7-gons and so on—then dividing them in two as before.”
They started out with previous research that cut pizza into six or twelve equal curved slices:
But now they've worked out how to cut it into any number of equal slices:
Sound complicated? You can look at technical details and stuff right here if you want to try it out. We have noticed one flaw though: not everyone gets the save amount of crust. Back to the drawing board, guys.
[via New Scientist]
