The ever-elusive riddle: What's the best way to cut Christmas cookies?
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#2Paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07558
Re: The ever-elusive riddle: What's the best way to cut Christmas cookies?
#3Once a shoe company in the South of Brazil (Novo Hamburgo or maybe São Leopoldo) had an employee who was long due retirement and they wanted to put some software in place to do his job, which was to cup up leather in the most efficient manner possible.
Try as they might, they never reached this man's efficiency.
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#4Pragmatically speaking, I'd advocate cutting square cookies and embossing/icing seasonal designs/motifs on the top.
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#5This is not that hard. You can solve this easily with a Monte Carlo simulation.
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#6Pragmatically speaking, I'd advocate cutting square cookies and embossing/icing seasonal designs/motifs on the top.
But... is it really Christmas if the kids don't get into fights over who gets the reindeer-shaped cookie cutter, and who gets the star?
And this research is from a Danish university, Danish Christmas cookies don't have icing. We only get to express ourselves through the shape.
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#7This is not that hard. You can solve this easily with a Monte Carlo simulation.
Your definition of 'solve' may be off.
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#8This is amusing but IRL you'd just roll up the extra dough and cut more cookies out of it until you can only get one cookie, then eat the rest of the dough. This is your reward.
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#9Every year I need to convince my wife that we need more Christmas triangles. We do through in the occasional square, but with enough triangles we can render anything!
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#10This is not that hard. You can solve this easily with a Monte Carlo simulation.
Ignorance is bliss my friend