the dining mongers problem

John Costello cos at indeterminate.net
Fri Oct 13 21:43:49 BST 2006


On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Bob Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > 	How can you please the mongers the most?
> 
> by talking about/watching buffy while supping beer/gin/alcohol of choice 
> and a guest appearance by evil willow.

If anyone misbehaves, you can lock them in a room with a video and 
speakers that repeatedly play all episodes of the Whedonesque "Cherub, 
The Vampire With Bunny Slippers".  
Mentioning the appearance of Muffy the Vampire Chiropractor should be 
enough to keep them in line.

No, I am not making this up.  <http://www.cautionzero.net/cherub/>

> as a recovering physicist i feel you've made the problem to hard so its 
> time do some modeling.
> assume pizzas are a uniform disc of size 1
> assume mongers are uniform spheres of size 1
> assume there is only one pizza topping whose size is 1
> assume a monger is sated after one slice of pizza of size 1 with one 
> topping.
> cancel a few pi(e)s and you will have your answer
> you could for simplicitys sake also assume there is only 1 monger

Mmmm, pizza.





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