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The Doughnut Cutting Numbers
When you're slicing up your peter or something, a lazy caterer, it's the triangle numbers. The first cut gives you the thing plus one extra piece. And the next time you get the thing, plus one, plus two. There's an equivalent algorithm for tneralizes ye. I'm genuinely hoping that people are listening to this whilst going round a super market and have now got either bagles or doughnutsain in their basket. But yet, get a doughnut, get a bagll see.
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