
Are we assuming the bars to have an even distribution of mass along
the whole body?
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Achim Schneider
Jon Fairbairn
wrote: 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.
Are you allowed to move the pieces between cuts?
Later you're also going to demand to bend it in N dimensions, aren't you?
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