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Also, why is any pizza ever getting cut into 12 slices?

• rootusrootus 4y ago
  Aside from small pizzas, I generally cut pizzas into 12 pieces. 8 slices ends up with unwieldy slices, 16 makes for overly narrow ones. Cut it however you want, of course, but for most average sized pizzas 12 makes for a nice sized slice.
  • NeoTar 4y ago
    That’s very much a cultural thing. An average European pizza is more of a ‘personal’ pizza and 8 or 10 inches in diameter. Twelve slices would be too much. I propose the Imperial/English pizza theorem. The optimal number of slices for a pizza is equal to the size in inches.
    • HWR_14 4y ago
      A giant pizza cut so that each slice is a full meal (maybe two if very hungry) is optimal.Eating a slice of pizza should be enough.
    • hexane360 4y ago
      Unfortunately, that guarantees the arc length of the slice to be constant (at pi inches), but not the total area (= d * 1/2 in). I believe this is why larger pizzas make more sense to cut into squares, as long thin pieces are harder to slice and to eat.
    • rootusrootus 4y ago
      Yeah, that's my exclusion for small pizzas. We only do personal pizzas for the kids. The rest of the family shares a larger one (or two, or however many).