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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

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Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/557841

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  • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
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    Cool analysis if you happen to have cylindrical onions and infinitely long knives laying around.

    • teft@piefed.social
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      I store them in the same non-euclidean drawer as my spherical cows.

      • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world
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        I keep mine next to my frictionless planes and point masses, but somtimes they roll away into the fourth dimension.

      • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Do not forget the tessaract

    • Cenzorrll@lemmy.world
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      They also completely missed the point of the two additional cuts method and made the lowest cut about where the highest cut should be.

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      Extending the study to an onion’s actual shape, the conclusion would be conical cuts…

      • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
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        Banach-Tarski may be relevant here… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox

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