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When any player shouts "cut", the cake is cut by the sword and by whichever of the players' knives happens to be the central one of the three (that is, the second in order from the sword). Then the cake is divided in the following way: The piece to the left of the sword, which we denote Left, is given to the player who first shouted "cut". We ...
Divide and choose (also Cut and choose or I cut, you choose) is a procedure for fair division of a continuous resource, such as a cake, between two parties. It involves a heterogeneous good or resource ("the cake") and two partners who have different preferences over parts of the cake (both want as much of it as possible). The procedure ...
The main difficulty in designing an envy-free procedure for n > 2 agents is that the problem is not "divisible".I.e., if we divide half of the cake among n/2 agents in an envy-free manner, we cannot just let the other n/2 agents divide the other half in the same manner, because this might cause the first group of n/2 agents to be envious (e.g., it is possible that A and B both believe they got ...
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The classic divide and choose procedure for cake-cutting is not truthful: if the cutter knows the chooser's preferences, they can get much more than 1/2 by acting strategically. For example, suppose the cutter values a piece by its size while the chooser values a piece by the amount of chocolate in it.
Why cut a cake with a knife when there’s a ceremonial sword available? On Friday, Queen Elizabeth II attended an afternoon reception in Cornwall, England with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge ...
A microwave oven or simply microwave is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range. [1] This induces polar molecules in the food to rotate and produce thermal energy in a process known as dielectric heating .
Every procedure for fair cake-cutting can also be applied to cutting a pie by just ignoring the fact that the two endpoints are identified. For example, if the cake-cutting procedure yielded a division in which Alice receives [0,1/3] and the George receives [1/3,1], then we would give Alice a circular sector of 120 degrees and George the ...