It is this type of problem that mathematicians have long investigated with the so-called ‘cake-cutting problem.’ Cake cutting is based around a scenario in which a varying amount of siblings ...

Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people.

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Ohad Ben-Shahar, a computer scientist at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, whose team holds the previous puzzle-solving record, says that Gallagher’s algorithm is impressive because ...

Solving this problem for two people is simple and is at least as old as the Bible, where Lot and Abraham divided the lands of Canaan (Genesis 13).