Looking Back On A Century Of Science, Holiday Math. December 24, 2021, Part 2
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The Ham Sandwich Theorem
The ham sandwich theory basically proves that as long as you've got three different items in three dimensional space, it is always possible to make a single knife cut them in half. The top slice of bread has to be exactly in two and the bottom slice o bread must be exactly into - but this can be really higgledy piggledy. It doesn't have to be uniform in any direction. Let's go to the phones. We have a ryan in sacramento, california. And i'm sitting here talking about the indisputable, indisputable existence of santa claus with doctor hannah fry.
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