The fair and random maximal division of "pizza"

2005/12/08 by Floyd E. Brown, Brown, Floyd E., Anant P. Godbole +1
Mathematics · #60D05 #FOS: Mathematics #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Probability (math.PR)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0512177

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Abstract

Consider n straight line cuts of a circular pizza made so as to maximize the number of pieces. We investigate how fair such a maximal division may be and how many slices are obtained if the cuts are successfully made with a certain probability.

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