How mathematics can help with dividing in inheritance or divorce – Knowledge
When it comes to inheritance or divorce, there are often arguments: who gets the piano, who gets the car, what is fair? Now physicists are proposing a new approach.
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“Obelix, please get me a cake server,” says the druid Miraculix in the cartoon “Asterix and Cleopatra” when he sees a captured cake. Whereupon Obelix grabs the saber of a knocked out Roman under “Permit me, the Lord”. “Now please make three pieces out of the cake.” Obelix cuts the cake: two full-size pieces for Asterix and Miraculix, the huge rest for himself.
