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The tricks to cutting cake fairly

Our latest research on envy-free cake cutting was covered in the media . The problem can be stated very simply: "Divide a cake in a way so that everyone things they got the best piece and the number of cuts is not arbitrarily many." However the problem is challenging and solution is involved. The folks at Sydney Morning Herald wanted to capture the nature and history of the problem so they made a video to explain things. Thank you Marcus Strom and Jack Fischer! The tricks to cutting cake fairly from Jack Fisher on Vimeo .