[seqfan] Re: cutting cakes pizzas and bagels

[Neil Sloane]

Like the pizza and the pancake - and the cake - the bagel and the torus are
solid! I don't know if the answers for the hollow bodies are in the OEIS.
Neil

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Tanya Khovanova <mathoflove-seqfan at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Consider the sequenceA3600 Maximal number of pieces obtained by slicing a
> torus (or a bagel) with n cuts.
>
> Should torus and bagel give different numbers? Do I assume correctly that
> torus is hollow and bagel is a filled torus?
> (I recevied an email from Jorge Diaz claiming that he can cut the bagel
> into 14 pieces. I can't open the picture, so I can't check)
>
>
> The number of pieces three lines can cut a disk into is 7, while the
> number of pieces 3 lines can cut an empty circle into is 6.
>
>
> I found the cube sequence:  A125 Cake numbers: maximal number of pieces
> resulting from n planar cuts through a cube (or cake)
> What is a sequence for a  hollow sphere?
>
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