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[Rilder]

3 slices?  X and Y and one halfway through the Z? or Something like that.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeah, cut it in half three times (once per dimension).

Question time:

There's this unusual little bar, where you can get a free beer if you know the secret code. The secret code works like this: You sit down at the bar. The bartender tells you a number. And you tell him another number. If it's right, you get a free beer. For example, a customer goes up to the bar and the bartender says, "Six." The customer says, "Three," and he gets his free beer. The second fellow goes up to the bar, and the bartender says, "Twelve." The customer says, "Six," and he gets his free beer! A third customer sits at the bar, and the bartender says, "Fourteen." The customer says, "Eight." He gets a free beer. You're sitting there. The bartender turns to you and says, "Twenty-two."

What do you say?

[Leafsnail]

You sure of that?

[Darvi]

Well, with 3 slices one can make... I don't know how many, but a more than 8 I think.

[Leafsnail]

Well, you can definitely make 8 pieces in 3 slices.  But could you do it in less?

[Darvi]

Wait, scrap what I said before. Tried it with a piece of bread and apparently I suck in 3D-thinking.

I know there is a formula, but I'll have to look it up.

[Darvi]

Formula is

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(n^3+5n)/6+1
so (27+15)/6+1=8

So, why would you want to cut this cheese? If it's impossible to cut it in any other way, then you can't eat it. Unless you make really small bits, that is.

[Leafsnail]

What does that formula assume?

And remember, it's least cuts to get 8 pieces, not most pieces with 3 cuts.

[Darvi]

Unless your cheese has some weird shape (which you said it doesn't), or you cut it very badly (which you said we don't)...

Yeah, cut it in half three times (once per dimension).

Question time:

There's this unusual little bar, where you can get a free beer if you know the secret code. The secret code works like this: You sit down at the bar. The bartender tells you a number. And you tell him another number. If it's right, you get a free beer. For example, a customer goes up to the bar and the bartender says, "Six." The customer says, "Three," and he gets his free beer. The second fellow goes up to the bar, and the bartender says, "Twelve." The customer says, "Six," and he gets his free beer! A third customer sits at the bar, and the bartender says, "Fourteen." The customer says, "Eight." He gets a free beer. You're sitting there. The bartender turns to you and says, "Twenty-two."

What do you say?

I say "Nine".

[Leafsnail]

Unless your cheese has some weird shape (which you said it doesn't), or you cut it very badly (which you said we don't)...

Finding the solution may require some more out of the box, flexible thinking.

[Darvi]

But the outside of the box is biiiiiig. 

[Rilder]

Unless your cheese has some weird shape (which you said it doesn't), or you cut it very badly (which you said we don't)...

Finding the solution may require some more out of the box, flexible thinking.

What like folding the space-time continuum?

[Strife26]

You get a big block of swiss to cut.

[Leafsnail]

What like folding the space-time continuum?

Close, oddly enough.

You get a big block of swiss to cut.

Heh, I like this one.  Not sure how many Swiss cheese would allow it, though.

[Darvi]

Now, if we had a big slice of cheese, then we could fold it several times and get it all done in one cut.

A slice is a "normal shape", right?