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Pizza Cut (Posted on 2003-10-27) Difficulty: 3 of 5
What is the greatest number of pieces you form with n cuts of a pizza?

See The Solution Submitted by Ravi Raja    
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re(2): full solution | Comment 14 of 15 |
(In reply to re: full solution by naiem)

Actually, the solution is not wrong, it's just that you are thinking of another kind of problem.

The reason this is called "Pizza Cut" is that a pizza is flat.  Yes, technically it is three dimensional (or else you would never get full), but for all intents and purposes, it is like a 2D circle.

To solve the problem you are talking about, see Partitioning the Regions, which discusses a "cheesecake cut" with deals with a three dimensional cylinder.


  Posted by nikki on 2004-09-01 16:17:45
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