Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoDicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Waypudding.coolexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: neat@lemmy.world
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minus-squarejdnewmil@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·4 months agoCool analysis if you happen to have cylindrical onions and infinitely long knives laying around.
minus-squareCenzorrll@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThey also completely missed the point of the two additional cuts method and made the lowest cut about where the highest cut should be.
minus-squareteft@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·4 months agoI store them in the same non-euclidean drawer as my spherical cows.
minus-squaredbtng@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoOh. I have a soft spot for spherical cows. Years ago I authored most of the Uncyclopedia page on the topic. Hehe. I see my edits there from 2010.
minus-squareMysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agoI keep mine next to my frictionless planes and point masses, but somtimes they roll away into the fourth dimension.
minus-squaresomerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·4 months agoDo not forget the tessaract
minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoExtending the study to an onion’s actual shape, the conclusion would be conical cuts…
minus-squarejdnewmil@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoBanach-Tarski may be relevant here… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox
Cool analysis if you happen to have cylindrical onions and infinitely long knives laying around.
They also completely missed the point of the two additional cuts method and made the lowest cut about where the highest cut should be.
I store them in the same non-euclidean drawer as my spherical cows.
Oh. I have a soft spot for spherical cows.
Years ago I authored most of the Uncyclopedia page on the topic. Hehe. I see my edits there from 2010.
I keep mine next to my frictionless planes and point masses, but somtimes they roll away into the fourth dimension.
Do not forget the tessaract
Extending the study to an onion’s actual shape, the conclusion would be conical cuts…
Banach-Tarski may be relevant here… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox