• @Ulvain
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    974 months ago

    Align the two apples so they’re off center to one another. One has 2/3 on the outside to the left, 1/3 to the right, the other 2/3 to the outside to the right, 1/3 to the left.

    Bird’s eye view, the single line cutting both apples will leave us with the left 2/3 of the first apple and the right 2/3 of the second, and a third portions made of 2 thirds, or another 2/3 of an apple.

    One cut, 2 apples, 3 equal portions.

    • @[email protected]
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      304 months ago

      No need to align them like that. Just place them one behind the other and cut off one third on the side (with a single stroke).

      • HobbitFoot
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        34 months ago

        But which one is lawful good and which one is chaotic evil?

    • @[email protected]
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      134 months ago

      They don’t have to be aligned off center from each other, just as long as you cut a third off of each in one stroke.

      Alternatively, one person just stabs one of the others, and the two survivors each get a whole apple.

      • @Ulvain
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        24 months ago

        You’re right that they’re off-center from a first “symmetry line” you have to draw.

        So: you place them on your cutting board. Trace an imaginary vertical bird’s eye view that passes by the center of both. Now based on that imaginary line, move both apples so they’re offset 2/3-1/3 from that line in each direction.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      I thought about this at first but then two people get the core as part of their portion and one doesn’t :(