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A women has a donut, and TWO "use and throw" knives. she want to share it with 5 children and you, only if you can help her do that? [added] the women is sharing between her children and you , she is not eating [/added] -- modified at 19:22 Thursday 25th October, 2007
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I dont remember the last time i used a knife to actually cut a donought! Just cut it with your hands and get it done with! Save the knives for something proper. Whats with the use and throw knives anyway? They get too blunt to cut throught the donought and need to be thrown away? They melt?! Or they get dirty and are unusable because of that? Alternatively take 1 knife cut the donought in 7 and throw it away once your done with it, tell her to keep the other knife... Nothing extreme required
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Cut the donut in half. You get 2 C shaped pieces. Place them on top of each other and make another cut top-down on the C shape to divide each shape into 3. There you go. 6 pieces
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
YOU ALREADY GOT IT THERE , ITS MEANT FOR 5 CHILDREN AND YOU , THE WOMAN IS NOT EATING HAVE FUN WITH YOUR PIECE
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THIS WILL GIVE YOU 5 PIECES
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Dude, let's say for instance you cut it completely horizontally in two circular pieces (rings), bent it to form a C shape and cut top-down on the C shape. How many pieces do you get? 4 for each circular piece. So in total 8 pieces. But because my solution suggested not a complete horizontal cut, the right part of the donut is actually only one piece because it is not split. So there are 7 pieces.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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YOU ALREADY GOT IT THERE , ITS MEANT FOR 5 CHILDREN AND YOU , THE WOMAN IS NOT EATING HAVE FUN WITH YOUR PIECE
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Don't tell me this is the solution !? :wtf: The woman is "sharing". That means something in english.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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A women has a donut, and TWO "use and throw" knives. she want to share it with 5 children and you, only if you can help her do that? [added] the women is sharing between her children and you , she is not eating [/added] -- modified at 19:22 Thursday 25th October, 2007
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Cut the donut into Half. This will give us two C shaped donut pieces. Now place them as piece#1 as "C" at bottom and on top of it 2nd piece but in flipped "C" form so basically like "X" but overlapped. then cut in middle. This gives us 6 pieces. I hope you can visualize what I was saying.
Sohail
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:doh:
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Dude, let's say for instance you cut it completely horizontally in two circular pieces (rings), bent it to form a C shape and cut top-down on the C shape. How many pieces do you get? 4 for each circular piece. So in total 8 pieces. But because my solution suggested not a complete horizontal cut, the right part of the donut is actually only one piece because it is not split. So there are 7 pieces.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
Mircea Grelus wrote:
the right part of the donut is actually only one piece because it is not split.
the right part is ok but the left part with only have two piece
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Cut the donut into Half. This will give us two C shaped donut pieces. Now place them as piece#1 as "C" at bottom and on top of it 2nd piece but in flipped "C" form so basically like "X" but overlapped. then cut in middle. This gives us 6 pieces. I hope you can visualize what I was saying.
Sohail
thats correct
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Mircea Grelus wrote:
the right part of the donut is actually only one piece because it is not split.
the right part is ok but the left part with only have two piece
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Seriously. I've uploaded another figure[^]. The left, top and bottom pieces are double (because they are horizontally cut through the middle.) The right piece is single.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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thats correct
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I'm getting mad here. The bloody woman is shaaaaaaring. 1 woman + 5 children + you = ?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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A women has a donut, and TWO "use and throw" knives. she want to share it with 5 children and you, only if you can help her do that? [added] the women is sharing between her children and you , she is not eating [/added] -- modified at 19:22 Thursday 25th October, 2007
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Quartz. wrote:
she want to share it with 5 children and you
if that's the case then she needs 7 pieces, not 6
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Quartz. wrote:
she want to share it with 5 children and you
if that's the case then she needs 7 pieces, not 6
Quartz. wrote: she want to share it with 5 children and you
Dinobot_Slag wrote:
if that's the case then she needs 7 pieces, not 6
She'll give you a piece later when the children are asleep. Patience.
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I'm getting mad here. The bloody woman is shaaaaaaring. 1 woman + 5 children + you = ?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
By share i meant, "share between her 5 children" AND "you", it was share between her children and you. sorry if i got you confused !
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Seriously. I've uploaded another figure[^]. The left, top and bottom pieces are double (because they are horizontally cut through the middle.) The right piece is single.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
in your second figure also the first cut is just the left portion so the total number of piece will be 5 ?
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:doh:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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Seriously. I've uploaded another figure[^]. The left, top and bottom pieces are double (because they are horizontally cut through the middle.) The right piece is single.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
are you also counting the bend as break ?
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
I was addressing you as in the woman who will divide the donut up. Take a deep breath.
Now, thats starting to sound dirty... ;P
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
I was addressing you as in the woman who will divide the donut up. Take a deep breath.
Now, thats starting to sound dirty... ;P
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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are you also counting the bend as break ?
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I can't believe this. Take 2 sheets of paper and cut them in the shape of a donut. Bend them and cut the C shape top-down as shown in my drawing. Count the pieces. You'll find eight of them. Assuming the rightmost piece (the piece to the right of the dotted line) is NOT cut through the middle - because as I mention it ISN'T - the 2 pieces of paper are actually one. So you have 7 pieces. Or better yet forget it. I'm getting tired of this.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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Mmmm... beer...
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?