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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
E21. Cover-Up with John Conway, Mitya Karabash, and Ron Graham
Author : Alexander Soifer
Published in: The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The Third Decade and Further Explorations
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
The problem title comes from a famous proverb “To have a cake and eat it too,” which in my early American years I could not understand. Surely you have to “have a cake” in order “to eat it”! A better formulation of this folk wisdom would have been “To keep a cake and eat it too,” which is obviously impossible, hence a moral of the proverb. But that is not what I would like to share with you here. A version of what follows first appeared in the second, 2009 Springer edition of my book “How Does One Cut a Triangle?” [Soi6]. But it fits here so well that I am including its new updated and expanded 2016 version.