The first question I ask is how many degrees are in a circle?
The correct answer is, of course, three hundred and sixty.
Now, the next question I ask is, what is 360 divided by 6?
(Six being the number of slices in a standard slice pie, a pizza
designed to be sold by the slice.) The correct answer this time
happens to be 60, naturally, and which also happens to be the
number of degrees in one corner of an equilateral triangle.
Taking this knowledge, and then, considering the universally
transferable adage of measure twice, cut once, and with the
assumption that the pizza you are dealing with is as perfectly
round as can be, select a point on the crust from where across
the rest of the pizza and to the opposite point you can detect
a sort of symmetry that you would like to emphasize and
compartmentalize. Now find the center point of the pizza.
Firmly break through the crust with the blade, and, with some
downward force, draw the blade across the surface of the
pizza, through the center point and across to the antipodal
point of selection, again breaking through firmly the crust.
Turn the pizza 60 degrees and repeat the same cutting action,
resulting now in 2 opposing 60 degree angles and 2 opposing
120 degree angles, or what I like to call, god's bow tie. And now,
turn the pizza for the second time, and cut for the third, as accur-
ately through the middle of the pie as possible. With practice, of
course, you will gain accuracy, as well as speed. You can now
also practice the number of resulting slices by adjusting the size
of the angles. Bon Mathématiques!
Monday, February 9, 2026
How To Cut A Pizza
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