[Haskell-cafe] Re: Health effects

Achim Schneider barsoap at web.de
Wed Oct 1 08:10:24 EDT 2008


Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Adrian Neumann <aneumann at 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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