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 <barsoap@web.de> wrote:
Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Adrian Neumann <aneumann@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.
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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