• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Cut both apples into 10 slices each. And then, the richest person takes 18 slices. Because that’s how capitalism works, baby.

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    7 days ago

    shouldn’t be that hard, but I understand that 94% can’t do it.

    line up the apples, a line that will cut the first apple into 2/3 vs 1/3 will also cut the next apple in same proportion. 1 person gets the 2 sliced 1/3s

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      7 days ago

      Stack the apples on top of each other, and proceed to do a single spiral cut down from the top stem, out towards the edge, and then back to the center in a single fluid motion. It won’t solve the problem, but it’ll look damn cool

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        Let’s assume you can stack the apples, and passing through both is still 1 stroke. That means cutting through 10 could still be considered 1 stroke.

        Stack the apples.

        Cut entirely through the top one directly in half.

        Continue cutting through the second one.

        As you cut through it, one of the people takes the top apple, rotates it 60 degrees, and puts it under the bottom apple.

        Finish cutting through the now top apple and continue cutting through the now bottom apple (the original top that was already in half).

        Repeat this until you’ve cut each into 6 pieces like this (picture not mathematically accurate, for visual purposes only).

        Give everyone 4 each.

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        7 days ago

        Actually, if you can peel them both with o e stroke, you cwn make apple sauce and serve eqaul portions quite easily.

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      Apples are not homogenous, the underlying requirement when asking for “equal share” is that no one is dissatisfied with his/her share, or envy someone else’s share. The solution is a dynamic process :

      After explaining it clearly to everyone, hover the knife above the left of the first apple as if you were going to cut it through but without doing it, move the knife slowly to the right until one of the three participants says he is happy with that share, cut the apple at that point and that participant gets that share. Then do the same with the second apple and the remaining unserved participants. Whoever doesn’t have anything after that gets the remaining two slices.

      Since everyone “could have” spoke earlierto get a share, everyone has a share that they consider the best in their frame of reference and everyone is satisfied.

      This solution also works with more than three participants

      Edit: I just now realised the goal was to do it in a single cut

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    7 days ago

    Just cut them right down the middle. Four slices each person takes one and the last is left to rot. It says share equally not share the entire apple

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    Because the 6% are psychopaths capable of murder. I thought it was closer to 3% of the population though

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    7 days ago

    cut one in half. then take turns each taking an equally sized bite

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    Non-murder solution:

    Place and hold the apples precisely on top of one another. (Make sure your fingers are not in the way.) From one side of the apple tower, go horizontally exactly two thirds of the way to the other side. At that position, cut vertically through both apples from top to bottom. You now have two pieces that are two thirds of an apple each, and two pieces that are one third each. The kid you like best will receive the end slices without the apple core in it.

    More realistically, disregard the stupid premise and make as many cuts as you need.