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How do we ensure equailty?
Well, the story of the two greedy sisters was the answer of one bright spark called James Harrington, writing nearly 400 years ago.
The two greedy sisters have eyes as big as saucers, and are hungering for a piece of cake.
How can you divide it without one sister tearing the eyes out of the other in fear of being deprived of even a crumb??
Harrington’s answer was simple
Give one sister the knife and ask her to cut the cake. The other sister has first choice of the portion to be eaten.
The first sister will make sure that the cake is cut at exactly half, as she doesn’t want the other sister to choose the larger piece, even if the piece is only a crumb larger.
Clever solution.
Yet my sister found a way of still getting the better piece of choclarte cake we had made as kids.
How, do you think?
She cut the cake perfectly in half, and let you walk away with your slice of cake all happy, knowing you were happy as you selected what half you wanted, but she then licked the knife as this had cake on it. Sorry, only thing I could think off :)
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that’s the sort of thing she would have thought of, king, but she had a much better plan…
I should say that she had cut the cake in 8 portions.
Anyone should be able to guess now
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She cut the cake into 8 portions as you were watching, and when you looked away she put all pieces together to make a whole, she then crawled through this hole into a new Universal dimension, leaving you with literally no cake on your face :)
I know that was wrong, but I will think about :)
Not a mathematical puzzle.
It actually happened…
and I have NEVER forgiven her
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