Re: xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas

In article <v2qd35$2d01m$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/23/2024 4:25 AM, Kevrob wrote:

On 5/21/2024 11:24 PM, Default User wrote:

Tony Nance wrote:
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On 5/7/24 6:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas

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Humorous as usual, but I'm having a hard time understanding why
Cutting Pizza In Squares is anywhere on this graph - to me, it seems
to be totally independent of the entire good/bad axes.

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For some varities of pizza, cutting into squares is traditional. This
is especially true of ones that are rectangular, where cutting in any
other form would be rather difficult.
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Cutting into squares makes pizza _unfoldable_!
 
(Yes, I was born in NYC and raised out on Long Island.)

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To expand on this, in NYC, pizza is considered street food.
You go into a parlor, buy a single (pie sliced) slice, and
fold it lengthways through the crust.
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A good pizza slice will then have enough structural integrity
to be picked up with one hand from the crust end, and eaten
while walking.
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This can't be done with square sliced pizza.
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What if the square pizza is reinforced with razor-sharp carbon
fiber?

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