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How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
- jordan0day 16y agoMobius strips? In my breakfast? It's more likely than you think!
- vog 16y agoThose aren't Möbuis strips. They are twisted by a full rotation rather than a half. In other words, they have still two sides rather than just one side.
- duck 16y agoThis was oddly enough talked about almost exactly one year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982249 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982249
- abeppu 16y agoI should really have learned by now to hit searchyc before submitting.
- wwortiz 16y agoIf it is over a year old most likely there are a ton of people who haven't seen it, and those who have may not remember it completely.
- duck 16y agoYeah, I totally agree... but it is also good to see previous comments as well. On my Hacker Newsletter I always post a couple items that are a year or more old and they always get a high click through. And the only way I remember this was because I tried it back then. :)
- pavel_lishin 16y agoAnd they said mathematics has few practical applications.
- StavrosK 16y agoAnd this isn't one of them!
- ahn 16y agoMy favorite is the cup trick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY
- linker3000 16y agoA SFW version of one girl, two cups no less.
- yoak 16y agoI've heard that called the "Spanish waiter" trick and seen it done with full plates. It's cool.
- throw_away 16y agoone interesting thing is that this bisection of a toroid is eerily similar to leon chua's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Chua http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Chua) model postulating the existence of the memristor. in it, capacitance, induction and resistance are at three cardinal directions around a toroid and he supposed that something must exist at the fourth.
- icefox 16y agoNote that upon attempting to do this your wife will laugh at you during the several minutes it takes and then laugh more when you have to cut it to put it in the toaster to eat it. Oh and the bagels at the store were all pre-cut requiring extra work to find the bagels. Still worth it though :)
- sudont 16y agoI’d totally use it at work for bagel friday, except for getting moved to a basement a full 3/8th mile away from the bagels…
- burgerbrain 16y agoMilton, is that you? I found your stapler.
- storborg 16y agoThis is the single best reason to have a toaster oven.
- spacemanaki 16y agoBagels tomorrow for breakfast.
- mhb 16y agoAnd Cheerios in a couple of weeks!
- linker3000 16y agoMeh. In the time taken to do this I could have prepared and eaten TWO normally-cut bagels.