Because the 6% are psychopaths capable of murder. I thought it was closer to 3% of the population though
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cut one in half. then take turns each taking an equally sized bite
My solution is cut both apples in half, and take two halves, because I am more equal than others.
Some animals are more equal than others...
Line em up and cut a third off both apples in one go? Everyone gets 2/3? Seems simple right? Consider the core. I don't think it's possible if you consider the core. You have to kill one of your friends.
You have to kill one of your friends.
You have to kill one of your friends.
Choose which one of your friends to kill.
Reach for the knife before someone else does.
You have to kill one of your friends.
Cut 1/3 up from the top or bottom?
(the apples! Cut the apples!)
Rotate each apple 90 degrees so that core is parallel to the ground and perpendicular to the knife, now its split equally
If more than one person hates the stem part then yea it's murder time
The core isn't evenly distributed along the axis though, it's like a small thingy in the center. Definitely murder time
This is actually the sandwich problem, which states there is exactly one slice that will split a sandwich of 3 elements into exactly 2 halves regardless of the shape or position of those elements. We don't need the full proof, but the problem is continuous, so any desired ratio is possible, therefore you will always be able to slice an apple into exactly 1/3 and 2/3rds "good bits", so a single slice will always be able to do the job.
I still struggle to visualize it. If we have two concentric spheres (or circles), how can you make a cut that slices both into ratios of 2/3 by volume/area?
diagonals
Or you could sacrifice yourself, you murderous bastard.
But then I would be dead.
Cut both apples in half. One half for the blonde, one half for brownie, one half for the ginger, and the last half for the animals or something.
Last half for the painter of this picture.
:D
Just eat out the apples together, ignoring the knife. Just take a bite and pass the apple to the next person, repeating the process until there is just a core. Not very sanitary, but mission accomplished.
I get the apple with the leaf for solving the puzzle.
And you have one less rival for getting a girlfriend.
Is there a Bechdel test but for incel men?
If you have one guy draw the knife over a long surface and distance, the other two can use that one slicing motion to cut the apples any number of times.
ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!
I got 99 cuts, but a stroke ain't one
ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!
Like shaving with an old razor blade.
I will be the cpt obv
1/3 1/3
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2/3 2/3
Ok but like how do you know it's 1/3 of the apple without any other tools.
What's funny is that you've actually stumbled onto an entire problem that's studied quite heavily. I remembered a Numberphile video about this. The problem is called "envy-free cake splitting". It's pretty straightforward. A split is envy-free if no one believes someone else got more than them. For three people this was figured out in 1960 and you can read about it here. It has been solved for N participants as well and you can read about the general problem here.
For two people, it's obvious. One splits and one chooses. The first person is incentivized to make it even because they don't know which they'll get.
I was going to give a summary of the process for three people but it's too much to explain succinctly. Just check the article I posted lol.
How is it obvious for two people, what if I have horrible manual dexterity and despite my best efforts, I slice the cake like 1/3 and 2/3, and the other person picks the bigger piece? I would very much envy the other piece
Then have them cut and you choose. Easy. Now they envy your piece and having better dexterity as well.
Insert Thanos balanced meme here.
Your "cut" would not be complete until you believe you've made them 50/50.
here we go infinite cuts
it is a magical long sword of apple slicing (+5 damage and THAC0 against apples, +1 otherwise)
Let’s not go too deep on this alright
Right... right... but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy-free_cake-cutting
I did not expect to see this today
Cut first, choose last. It's as fair as you can get when eyeballing it
Only works with two people. For three you use Selfridge-Conway procedure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge%E2%80%93Conway_procedure) which uses up to five cuts.
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