[Haskell-cafe] Re: Health effects

Adrian Neumann 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.