From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!bj Newsgroups: net.math Title: Re: pizza Article-I.D.: yale-com.624 Posted: Wed Jun 23 19:37:32 1982 Received: Sun Jun 27 04:53:19 1982 References: populi.213 People have done wonderfull jobs showing that you can not divide a pizza into 7 equal wedges, but that does not solve the original problem - can you divide a pizza into seven pieces of equal size and any shape (some people don't like crust anyway)? The answer to that question is yes. Construct a line whose length is sqrt ( 1 / 7r ) where r is the radius of the pizza. Take a circle with this radius from the center of the pizza and give it to somebody. Then divide the ring into six pieces for everyone else.