Mind. Blown.
Jason McAteer once famously said he’d rather a pizza cut into four slices rather than eight because he’d never manage all of it if it was cut into eight slices.
Well if that maths problem was too much for Trigger to take, we can only imagine how he would react to a new and very fancy method of slicing a pizza, devised by mathematicians of all people.
According to New Scientist, Joel Haddley and Stephen Worsley of the University of Liverpool have expanded upon a technique known as monohedral disc tiling, which created 12 slices of identically-sized slices to cater for those who like crust with their pizza and those who don’t (see diagram below).
Haddley and Worsley have taken it one step further, creating similar tilings from curved pieces with any odd number of sides (known as 5-gons, 7-gons etc. (shaded below) and then splitting them in half.
Haddley says that “mathematically there is no limit whatsoever,” but you’d soon run out of pizza if you tried it beyond 9-gon pieces.
The extent of Haddley’s and Worsley’s experimentation is evident in the diagram below and most importantly, you can see how it extends to an actual pizza at the bottom of the page.
Anyone else hungry all of a sudden?
All pics via Joel Haddley and New Scientist
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