Math Is Important: The Great Cake Swindle

Math Is Important: The Great Cake Swindle
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When the waiter thinks two 5-inch cakes equal one 9-inch cake, every mathematician in a 10-mile radius feels a disturbance in the force. The area of a 9-inch cake is π×4.5² = 63.6 square inches, while two 5-inch cakes only give you 2×π×2.5² = 39.3 square inches. That's a 38% cake deficit! This is why we can't have nice desserts - people skipping the fundamental πr² calculation before making critical pastry decisions.

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