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Forum Name: This and that
Topic ID: 643
Message ID: 4
#4, RE: Cutting a pie in 8 pieces in 3 movements
Posted by Pete on Mar-25-08 at 03:43 PM
In response to message #0
Someone asked me this and the best answer I got was cut the pie in half, stack the halves on top of each other, cut that in half, and then stack the quarters on top of each other, then cut that in half. Thus you get 8 pieces with 3 cuts. Though I'm not sure if stacking the pieces is exactly legal. Since I never found out the answer to the riddle.

Pete