Thursday, August 19, 2010
Puzzle: Slicing a pizza in 3 parts
This is a nice puzzle when you are with your friends and you eat a pizza. There are two guys and a pizza. How can you cut the pizza so that everyone is happy about the slice received? This is pretty easy for 2 guys, but how about 3 guys and , more generally, n guys?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
here is my approach when I eat pizza:
ReplyDeleteEach friend gets a slice with angle 360/n.
Hence, for three friends each one gets a slice
with angle 120 degrees.
The real question is how do we estimate the
angle when we are in front of a pizza and no
protractor is available?
this is not a solution, you just postponed the problem.
ReplyDeleteok, here the algorithm.
ReplyDelete1) from an arbitrary participant, clockwise: each participant makes his own cut (from the center, like a radius);
2) with same order: each participant chooses his the bigger slice from the 2 slices in front of him.
Alternative: anticlockwise :)
I'll run some tests this weekend with friends ;)
BTW, how is life in London? I'm missing Lipari times ;)
Maurizio