Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Health effects

On 2008 Oct 1, at 15:56, Andrew Coppin wrote:

Benjamin L.Russell wrote:

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:54:17 +0200, Adrian Neumann wrote:

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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.

Good thing that the chocolate slab was only 2 kg and of finite length. Had it been of infinite length, we would need Dedekind cuts to partition it.... ;)

You know, it's interesting... I posted this in another forum, and people just said "dude, why would you try to eat a whole 2 Kg of chocolate? That's really unhealthy." I post the same thing here and now people are arguing about Dedekind cuts... da HELL?! o_O

An interesting dichotomy of perspectives, don't you think?

And if you'd posted on the LOPSA (http://lopsa.org) list it would probably be a discussion of which OS is which kind of chocolate. So? :) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH