• exploitedamerican@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    You position the apple so that cutting a straight line across both apples removed 1/3 of each apple so there are 2- 2/3 piece of apples and 2-1/3 pieces so everyone gets 2/3 of an apple. This is basic math and logic

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      2 hours ago

      Basic math sure. Basic logic would be that cutting a third of two apples in the same cut is the most possible effort for no benefit.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, but it does not occur to me easily. Because in practice, I would not be able to guess where to cut a sphere to get exactly 1/3. And that is without taking the core into account…

      So my brain initially discarded that option without thinking about it.

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        4 hours ago

        Its still the best option, you just have tk be close enough sk that everyones piece is +- 5% most people wont be down for the other option unless one of the participants is c-suite or a billionaire.