{"id":3858,"date":"2009-12-14T12:54:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T04:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2018-01-29T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T04:05:39","slug":"fair-slicing-of-the-pizza-using-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/fair-slicing-of-the-pizza-using-math-3858","title":{"rendered":"Fair slicing of the pizza - using math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's the situation. You order a pizza and the guy who cuts it for you has something in his eye and does a pretty bad job.<\/p>\n<p>His first cut (BC) misses the center (A) and subsequent cuts are unevenly spaced, but at least he manages to get the cuts all passing through a single point (P).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/12\/pizza-slicing.gif\" alt=\"pizza-slicing\" title=\"pizza-slicing\" width=\"428\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The question is - if 2 people are eating the pizza and they take alternate pieces, will they eat the same amount or will one of them get more? <\/p>\n<p>It turns out there is some interesting math behind this problem. <\/p>\n<p>You can read some of the solutions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20427381.500-the-perfect-way-to-slice-a-pizza.html?full=true\">The perfect way to slice a pizza<\/a>, by Stephen Ornes of The New Scientist (requires a subscription)<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/fair-slicing-of-the-pizza-using-math-3858\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/12\/pizza.jpg\" alt=\"pizza\" title=\"pizza\" width=\"128\" height=\"74\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Not all pizza gets sliced neatly through the middle. How can we ensure a fair distribution of slice area?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11359,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}