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Oarch
I enjoyed this write-up. It had just the right amount of intellectual meandering for me, but still delivered great (and graphical!) payoff.
bartvk
Yup, great fun. I read it right until the end.
ginko
This will come in handy the next time I bake an apple pie.
totetsu
I was just reading 2 seconds about about circle packing and it's use in origami design. Now i see semicircle packing is useful in pie design too.
halflife
Are your apples half cylinders? Or is your pie 2 dimensional?
cenamus
It's about the half slices lining the top of the cake
SiempreViernes
This post didn't even contain a clever trick to make brute force searching more efficient, it's just literally ask OpenAI to brute force it for you; This sort of vacuous content is so pervasive here I guess it's just time to not visit this site anymore.
matthewfcarlson
I love the write up but I does make me wish I had more time to explore stuff like this personally.
written-beyond
It's simple, start thinking of semicircles as squares. You'll figure it out I don't want to just give you the answer.