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June 18, 2014 05:20 pm PDT
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Adventures in scientific cakecutting
Francis Galton is infamous for pioneering the field of eugenics. But he was also, apparently, interested in baked goods, as demonstrated by a 1906 letter to the journal Nature on the proper way to cut a round cake.
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