How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too

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Recorded10 Nov 2016

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Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people. The post How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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