Timeline for Maximum number of pieces of equal area you can obtain by cutting a pizza a certain number of times
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| Nov 7, 2014 at 16:46 | comment | added | user88 | @Mew I've edited the question statement to clarify. Your answer is now officially invalid. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:56 | comment | added | shy | Good, then i can vote for that :) | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:55 | comment | added | shy | He uses 'theoretically', since it is the maximum possible slices for n=6. But those slices wont have equal area. So slice number should be less than < 22 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:52 | comment | added | Kenshin | @shyos, he's talking theoretically, but practically you can cut it into 64 equal slices. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:50 | comment | added | shy | as OP states,"Theoretically I could cut the pizza into a total of 22 pieces using 6 cuts, but more often than not none of them would be of equal area." | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:44 | comment | added | Kenshin | @shyos, clearly your formula doesn't take into account my method of stacking pizza slices on top of one another before cutting. Where in the question does it state it is invalid? | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:43 | comment | added | shy | Since maximum possible number of slices is given as; $$\frac{n*(n+1)}{2}+1=22$$ which can be obtained by intersection of 6 lines, putting slices on top of each other is invalid. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 10:35 | history | answered | Kenshin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |