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Cake-cutting may refer to: Fair cake-cutting, a mathematical problem of fairly dividing a heterogenous resource among people with different preferences Efficient cake-cutting, a similar division problem in economics and computer science; Wedding-cake cutting, the habit of cutting the wedding cake and distributing it to the guests, as a symbol ...
The "cake" is only a metaphor; procedures for fair cake-cutting can be used to divide various kinds of resources, such as land estates, advertisement space or broadcast time. The prototypical procedure for fair cake-cutting is divide and choose, which is mentioned in the book of Genesis to resolve Abraham and Lot's conflict. This procedure ...
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).
Layer cake Birthday fruit cake Raisin cake. Cake is a flour confection usually made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked.In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.
In mathematics, the cake number, denoted by C n, is the maximum of the number of regions into which a 3-dimensional cube can be partitioned by exactly n planes. The cake number is so-called because one may imagine each partition of the cube by a plane as a slice made by a knife through a cube-shaped cake .
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 ...
Suppose a cake has to be divided among Alice and George, Alice is entitled to 8/13 and George is entitled to 5/13. The cake can be divided as follows. Alice cuts the cake to 6 pieces with valuation-ratios 5:3:2:1:1:1. George marks the pieces that have for him at least the value mentioned by Alice.
A woman is going viral after her daughter shared her “brilliant” method for making sure everyone gets the perfect piece of dessert.