11 Sep
2014
11 Sep
'14
2:38 p.m.
Thanks. I know I saw a very similar problem somewhere in the past 10 years. Maybe in the Monthly? Though I'm pretty sure it was about a cake, not a pie. --Dan On Sep 11, 2014, at 1:28 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Dan asks: "Are we supposed to be given arbitrary β < α < 180 degrees and then alternate them?"
Yes.
The surprise is that regardless of how α and β are chosen, alternation returns the pie to its original state after finitely many operations using α and β alternately.
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