Throw the "no free lunch"-theorem on top of that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Dominic Steinitz <dominic.steinitz@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Adrian Neumann <aneumann <at> inf.fu-berlin.de> writes:
I often wonder how many cuts you need to divide a steak in n pieces. You can obviously get n pieces with (sqrt n) cuts by cutting a grid. But I'm sure some smart mathematician thought of a (log n) way.
You might try the ham sandwich theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem as an hors d'oeuvre.
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