Comments on: Hmmmmm pie

Hmmmmm pie

kenaman — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:06:27 -0800

By: kenaman

kenaman — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:09:49 -0800

Some more great little timewasters here.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:18:12 -0800

VERY GOOD! You finished the pie in 16 bites. You tied with the previous champion. Can you beat the record? Nah, I'm all full up of pie.

By: terrier319

terrier319 — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:20:11 -0800

crap - the edges (crust) kill you ... I'm up to 30 bites after 5 tries and still can't do it.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:20:30 -0800

19 again...

By: Zampa

Zampa — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:21:41 -0800

16.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:21:59 -0800

Sixteen here, too. If only I could dislocate my jaw..

By: antifuse

antifuse — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:24:52 -0800

17 on my first try... nothing better since. Harumph!

By: gwint

gwint — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:25:51 -0800

WW(Takeru Kobayashi)D?

By: verb

verb — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:35:19 -0800

16. Sooooo frustrating...

By: Hlewagast

Hlewagast — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:37:44 -0800

I got 15 on this once, but only once. Now, I can't figure it out. You can get away with leaving some stray pixel "crumbs" behind, as I remember.

By: riffola

riffola — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:40:07 -0800

17 on the first try, 16 on the second. I can't do any better than 16.

By: senor biggles

senor biggles — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:41:30 -0800

18, then 16. Any mathematicians care to explain how to do better?

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:46:14 -0800

spoiler
via metachat

By: nervousfritz

nervousfritz — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:46:53 -0800

Why do java applets stop at the firewall whereas flash programs work just fine? (rhetorical question, more to do with the particular firewall I guess) But it seems like for all Java's power and promise, Flash delivers a more user-friendly experience. Additionally, I think the only browser to support Java 5 is Internet Explorer. Flash just works.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:46:55 -0800

I've never been able to do it in less than 16. I think 15 is a false ceiling, especially so for "less than 15".

By: springload

springload — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:04:08 -0800

I get 15 repeatably by making a horizontal figure 8 in the center of the pie with little overlap. I can then eat my way around the edge, clockwise from about 1 o'clock. The third piece is the tricky one.

By: neustile

neustile — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:08:27 -0800

i did it in 15. the slop w/r/t the crumbs is pretty big. i left a noticeable slice at the end but it still counted as 15.

By: Lectrick

Lectrick — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:17:59 -0800

16 on my first try.

By: nile_red

nile_red — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:25:38 -0800

i got 16, but no better : (

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:27:24 -0800

I was looking forward to some real pie. (18)

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:28:40 -0800

This game cheats. My count went from 14 to 16. LIAR!!!

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 08:25:02 -0800

1. That’s right, 1 bite. ‘cause fater that, my stomach’s no longer empty.

By: maledictory

maledictory — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:21:44 -0800

15. Barely any crumbs.

By: rawfishy

rawfishy — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:23:51 -0800

Burp...(!) heres how to do it in 15. Make a bite on the edge of about 75% into the pie and then leaving a space equal to the possible diameter of the bite before taking another 75% bite. The trick here is to take 1 or 2 x 100% bites as well - this pushes you from 16 to 15 at the end. Cycle around once, then do another cycle for whats left over - then finish off the center carefully. If you are too greedy and bite too deep at every bite in the first cycle then the remaining pie gaps are too wide for the bites in the second cycle. Got the funny feeling i was looking at capitalism in action while playing this....eat all your resources constantly at full capacity, without thinking of the next bite in relationship to the whole picture, and you'll never get all the pie. Selective waste in the name of progress is 'more' rather than 'less' - interesting...

By: StarForce5

StarForce5 — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:31:42 -0800

26 ... 17 ... 17 ... I'm full.

By: Darke

Darke — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:54:06 -0800

16 on my first try, confirming that you can leave stray crumbs.

By: Aknaton

Aknaton — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:57:05 -0800

...eat all your resources constantly at full capacity, without thinking of the next bite in relationship to the whole picture, and you'll never get all the pie. The mathematician's phrase (IAAM) is "The greedy algorithm fails." 17 first try, then 15. My line of reasoning first time was "Let's worry about the crust" and placed all the bites around the outside, in such a way that the points of intersection of the two circles (pie and bite) were actually opposite one another on the bite. That maximizes the around of crust bitten. However, the crust length is not an integer multiple of the amount bitten this way, as it turns out; it's 9+something. So one should bite slightly less crust and more pie, in such a way that once one makes it fully around the outside, it takes exactly 10 bites. After that it's pretty easy.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:10:01 -0800

Let them eat cake.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:10:08 -0800

15, first try. If you go the crust-first route, you have to minimize overlap while maximizing inner area. The further out you place the circle, the wider area you eat, (until you reach the diameter) but the less inner area you eat. Try placing the circle about 2/3rds over the edge and you'll see what I mean.

By: vagus

vagus — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:33:50 -0800

I, for one, welcome our new pie eating overlords.

By: bjrubble

bjrubble — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:39:04 -0800

After rawfishy's comment, I did in 15 fairly easily. I think there's a slightly easier way, though. First, take a bite on the crust with about 75% of the circle inside the pie. Then take another bite right next to that on the crust, but make the crust edges touch a diameter of the bite circle (maximizing the amount of crust edge consumed). Alternate these bites around the crust edge. At that point, the interior can be finished off with the remaining bites.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:09:11 -0800

Yep, 15 takes a bit of tries, but here's the easy way. Each bite is 10.4% of the pie. You have 15 bites, that obviously must average 6.66% each. Just make sure that you always fill at least 64.1% of the circle with each bite, and you can't lose. Easy as pie!

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:56:48 -0800

Nifty. I was, um, doing something else with the pie though....but I did it 15 times!

By: jaronson

jaronson — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:04:54 -0800

I cannot figure out the mystery animal!?!?!

By: JParker

JParker — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:49:43 -0800

The easy way - start with a bite that has the inner edge of the circle exactly in the middle of the pie. Now take another bite, mirror image. Makes a figure 8. Now take two more bites on the sides to turn it into a four-leafed clover in the middle of the pie. Now go around the edge, keeping each bite as far away from the center of the pie as you can. 15 bites, no crumbs.