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How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too
- tedmiston 10y agoSometimes it makes me sad to read something like this and see it be so readily dismissed from the real world because of complexity. It makes me wonder how much precision matters in practice vs principle. > Even a simpler such algorithm would be unlikely to have practical implications, Brams cautioned, since the cake portions that players receive would typically include many tiny crumbs from different parts of the cake — not a feasible approach if you’re dividing something like a tract of land.