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2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Cupcake Paradox
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Abstract
When a fair-minded group of friends shares a plate of cupcakes, each one takes one and eats it, taking care to leave a cupcake for the next person. However, if the cupcakes are especially tasty and everyone is hungrier than usual, what happens when there is only one cupcake left on the plate? Carefully, one of the friends cuts the cake in half and takes one of the halves. A second person can’t resist, and cuts the remaining half in half. Then a third friend comes forward and cuts the remainder in half. And so it goes on … Theoretically we could imagine a virtual cake that is infinitely divisible, and a group of friends with all the time in the world to go on eating half of whatever was left of the cake.