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Privacy NoticeIt’s the perfect go-to comfort food, but also makes a perfect fancy meal out, pizza is just incredible for all occasions. Whether you’re splashing out on a fancy sourdough option, making your own at home or just opting for a quick and easy lob-it-in-the-oven job; there’s one annoying dilemma we all face when sharing the Italian meal. Unequal slices are often the source of family tiffs at the dinner table, with ‘they have bigger pieces than I do!’ arguments cropping up far too often despite your best efforts. Well, this age-long issue has now been resolved, and it’s all down to two mathematicians.
Pizza cutting is always a hassle when someone’s left with the small slice
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Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!’s daily newsletter . You can sign up at the top of the page. Joel Haddley and Stephen Worsley, both researchers from the University of Liverpool, have thankfully sorted out all of the number-crunching and scientific theories for us, making good use of their mathematical skills in the same of equal pizza for all. Certain geometric shapes will always ensure the round meal will be perfectly cut, with nothing going to waste. An image of the brilliant pizza slicing hack was shared on Twitter, via the account @oshop, which showed the duo’s method put into action.
It follows a scientific disc tiling method
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Although we’ll simply know it as ‘that odd way to cut pizza evenly’, in the maths world this method is known as ‘monohedral disc tiling’. When the method is followed, it creates 12 perfectly even slices of pizza you can share without the fear of arguments. Here’s exactly how you can following the monohedral disc tiling method yourself: Cut your pizza into six curved three side shapes across the pizza (it should look like a star coming out of the centre). Then, divide the shapes into two so you have an inside group with a crust, as well as an outside group with a crust. You then cut even more slices by creating similar tiles from more curved slices with an odd number of sides (known as 5-gons, 7-gons etc.) Divide the slices into two like the previous method suggests. Notches are then cut into the corner of the shapes to form spiky pieces within the circular pizza.
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Speaking to New Scientist, mathematician Haddley said: “Mathematically there is no limit, though it might be impractical to carry out the scheme beyond 9-gon pieces.” Will you be trying out the mathematic method of pizza cutting? Or will you stick you guessing your slice sizes? For more wacky food stories and the latest lifestyle news, sign up to our daily newsletter hereStory SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnFood
