Pizza and Steven Strogatz

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Ever since Steven Strogatz shared his go-to story about how math is beautiful, I find myself unknowingly rearranging things on pizza night.

Pizza Semicircle 2

Semicircular pizza of radius r

Pizza Rectangle

Approximating pizza rectangle with Area \approx l * w = \frac{\pi r}{2} * r = \frac{1}{2} \pi r^2

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