What's funny about that is the mathematical formula you would use to determine how much more pizza you're getting...FreeFlier wrote:Don't forget that a large is usually about eighteen inches . . . a thirty-six inch pizza will have four times as much pizza!Warrl wrote:At their age, yeah, it might qualify...FreeFlier wrote:I dunno . . . two people eating a 36 inch pizza with the works might qualify . . .
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......as an after-school snack.
As a teen I could just about eat a large by myself, if I was hungry . . . two would have been "no way" even if it was free!
The guy I knew that did it hadn't eaten in 24 hours, had been working hard . . . and the last couple of pieces were still a struggle.
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Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
There is no such thing as a science experiment gone wrong.
Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
FreeFlier wrote:I dunno . . . two people eating a 36 inch pizza with the works might qualify . . .
Warrl wrote:At their age, yeah, it might qualify...
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......as an after-school snack.
FreeFlier wrote:Don't forget that a large is usually about eighteen inches . . . a thirty-six inch pizza will have four times as much pizza!
As a teen I could just about eat a large by myself, if I was hungry . . . two would have been "no way" even if it was free!
The guy I knew that did it hadn't eaten in 24 hours, had been working hard . . . and the last couple of pieces were still a struggle.
Two squared? What's funny about that?Alkarii wrote:What's funny about that is the mathematical formula you would use to determine how much more pizza you're getting...
(The constant drops out on both sides.)
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
I can deal with an 18" large pizza usually - a twenty or twenty-four would be a bit much.
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
FreeFlier's formula is also key to winning a bar bet... cut a pizza into four equal pieces with one continuous cut.
Start at the exact center of the pie and cut a round piece that touches one edge of the whole pie. When you get back to the center, execute a similar cut directly opposite your first cut.
The area of a 12" pie (π*r^2 where r=6) is 113.096 square inches.
The area of each of the circular pieces (π*r^2 where r=6/2 or 3) is 28.274 square inches.
Both circular pieces add to 56.548 square inches.
As the remaining pieces are mirror images of one another and contain a total area of 56.548 square inches, ergo, each remaining half also contains 28.274 square inches.
The formula scales, no matter what size pizza is used.
Of course, proving said bar bet to someone who boasts he didn't have to use algebra today is quite a problem.
Start at the exact center of the pie and cut a round piece that touches one edge of the whole pie. When you get back to the center, execute a similar cut directly opposite your first cut.
The area of a 12" pie (π*r^2 where r=6) is 113.096 square inches.
The area of each of the circular pieces (π*r^2 where r=6/2 or 3) is 28.274 square inches.
Both circular pieces add to 56.548 square inches.
As the remaining pieces are mirror images of one another and contain a total area of 56.548 square inches, ergo, each remaining half also contains 28.274 square inches.
The formula scales, no matter what size pizza is used.
Of course, proving said bar bet to someone who boasts he didn't have to use algebra today is quite a problem.
Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
That's planar trigonometry, not algebra.AmriloJim wrote:FreeFlier's formula is also key to winning a bar bet... cut a pizza into four equal pieces with one continuous cut.
Start at the exact center of the pie and cut a round piece that touches one edge of the whole pie. When you get back to the center, execute a similar cut directly opposite your first cut.
The area of a 12" pie (π*r^2 where r=6) is 113.096 square inches.
The area of each of the circular pieces (π*r^2 where r=6/2 or 3) is 28.274 square inches.
Both circular pieces add to 56.548 square inches.
As the remaining pieces are mirror images of one another and contain a total area of 56.548 square inches, ergo, each remaining half also contains 28.274 square inches.
The formula scales, no matter what size pizza is used.
Of course, proving said bar bet to someone who boasts he didn't have to use algebra today is quite a problem.
/pedant mode off/
And a neat trick.
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
Still, he who boasts of not needing algebra won't understand trigonowhatsis, either.
Algebra being well above said person's LCD.
Algebra being well above said person's LCD.
Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
Really? I'd have just used pi times radius squared on both, then used subtraction to find the difference.FreeFlier wrote:Two squared? What's funny about that?
(The constant drops out on both sides.)
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
AmriloJim wrote:FreeFlier's formula is also key to winning a bar bet... cut a pizza into four equal pieces with one continuous cut.
Start at the exact center of the pie and cut a round piece that touches one edge of the whole pie. When you get back to the center, execute a similar cut directly opposite your first cut.
The area of a 12" pie (π*r^2 where r=6) is 113.096 square inches.
The area of each of the circular pieces (π*r^2 where r=6/2 or 3) is 28.274 square inches.
Both circular pieces add to 56.548 square inches.
As the remaining pieces are mirror images of one another and contain a total area of 56.548 square inches, ergo, each remaining half also contains 28.274 square inches.
The formula scales, no matter what size pizza is used.
Of course, proving said bar bet to someone who boasts he didn't have to use algebra today is quite a problem.
yeah, that may be fancy, but pedants will be the only ones to stay around to eat strangely shaped pizza, that has gone cold due to the time taken!!!
'one continuous cut' ... I will bet a professional pizza place will have a properly sized cutter, to cut it into triangles with one slice...
Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
'always expect pizza-pie cutting Ninjas...'
Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
You call that pedantic? Now this is pedantic:
The real challenge is to cut the pizza into two, three, or five equal portions... fractally. Start with a Koch curve and go from there.
Or, for extra credit, cut it into Penrose tiles. This doesn't necessarily guarantee equal portions, but somebody gets a lot of star-shaped pepperoni.
The real challenge is to cut the pizza into two, three, or five equal portions... fractally. Start with a Koch curve and go from there.
Or, for extra credit, cut it into Penrose tiles. This doesn't necessarily guarantee equal portions, but somebody gets a lot of star-shaped pepperoni.
Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
No reason to get all Fractal, we can keep it Escher-ific...
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winter ... es/076.jpg
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winter ... es/076.jpg
Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
Dave you are missing the point... Now if you did that with Sheldon about, he would say "But! you missed a bit, and what about sharing equally????"
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
I can eat an 18" if I'm really tired and hungry, but nearly always regret it. My brother used to claim he had never seen this spurious "leftover pizza" that people talk about, but that was before the heart attack.AnotherFairportfan wrote:I can deal with an 18" large pizza usually - a twenty or twenty-four would be a bit much.
Think the most pizza I ever ate at once was two 14". I was 18 or 19 at the time and might have been living in a frat lodge.
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
College boys can do a lot of things because they're too stupid or drunk to know it's impossible.Typeminer wrote:I can eat an 18" if I'm really tired and hungry, but nearly always regret it. My brother used to claim he had never seen this spurious "leftover pizza" that people talk about, but that was before the heart attack.AnotherFairportfan wrote:I can deal with an 18" large pizza usually - a twenty or twenty-four would be a bit much.
Think the most pizza I ever ate at once was two 14". I was 18 or 19 at the time and might have been living in a frat lodge.
The two guys that ate the 36" pizza (with the works) were college boys on summer break painting houses.
Since they did it, the pizza was free . . . and they jaywalked across the street for ice cream cones!
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
I can still wolf down an 18" "the Kitchen Sink" (as in "everything BUT) pizza, but every time I do my cardiologist has an angina attack...
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
Sympathetic magic, working in reverse?Sgt. Howard wrote:I can still wolf down an 18" "the Kitchen Sink" (as in "everything BUT) pizza, but every time I do my cardiologist has an angina attack...
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
No... just his standard reaction when I tell him about it...Dave wrote:Sympathetic magic, working in reverse?Sgt. Howard wrote:I can still wolf down an 18" "the Kitchen Sink" (as in "everything BUT) pizza, but every time I do my cardiologist has an angina attack...
Rule 17 of the Bombay Golf Course- "You shall play the ball where the monkey drops it,"
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Re: Too Much Pizza 2016-10-20
Reminds me of when my doctor told me I needed to cut out eggs . . . I said I wasn't going to do that.
Then I told him how many eggs I'd eaten in the last year . . . 18. (Though I was wrong, twelve of them were deviled eggs, so it was really only 12.)
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Then I told him how many eggs I'd eaten in the last year . . . 18. (Though I was wrong, twelve of them were deviled eggs, so it was really only 12.)
--FreeFlier