Proceed with waffle preparation and delivery, I'll be waiting, and will provide my own syrup. Please note all waffles are to be gluten-free, as my body hates me and the things I enjoy.
Because then it gets too soggy in the middle. The magic of the waffle is that the tops of the square dividers stay mostly dry until you start cutting into them. So you get freshly syruped waffle throughout the eating process.
The honeycomb theorem is actually better than that: there isn't any way to divide up the plane with equal-area shapes (even if it's not a tiling in the sense of having any pattern) it won't be better than hexagons.
I keep telling people that you can make nice, even months if you just have 13 of them but nooooo, 13 is a prime number, you can't divide it by 2, 3, 4, or 6! Boo fucking hoo, I want every month in the year to start on the same day of the week.
You tack the extra time on the end, shifting what day of the week the 1st falls on for the rest of the year. Instead of the end of February, which is just the most random fucking choice that I can only figure was determined because the calendar was set centuries before we had lightbulbs.
I don't think waffle enjoyers want one more square in the same waffle, they want a specific shape and syrup/butter ratio per square. This waffle bricks that with its thick sections.
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gressen@lemmy.zip · 79 pts · 147d
Except the 17 square version holds less syrup than the 16 square version because you need to reduce the size of the squares to fit more of them.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 61 pts · 147d
If you take the original 16 squares and reduce them each in half, you can have 32 squares. Doctorate now, please.
xthexder@l.sw0.com · 42 pts · 147d
If the squares are half the size, you get 4x the number of squares, assuming you're measuring side length and not area.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 147d
Oh hey sorry I didn't know you went to school for this shit. Fine. you make the waffles.
deranger@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 147d
One square is the optimal waffle if you’re optimizing for syrup volume alone.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 7 pts · 147d
I will put you to work testing this theory.
Proceed with waffle preparation and delivery, I'll be waiting, and will provide my own syrup. Please note all waffles are to be gluten-free, as my body hates me and the things I enjoy.
moody@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 147d
If you serve the syrup in a cup, then the syrup to waffle ratio is infinite.
bumblefumble@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 147d
I post this comment quite often, but a number divided by zero is not infinity, so the syrup to waffle ratio would actually be undefined.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 147d
Fine, as the quantity of waffle approaches zero, the syrup to waffle ratio approaches infinity.
FishFace@piefed.social · 3 pts · 147d
Give this man a medal
angrystego@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
Why even have a waffle at all, let's drink the syrup!
xthexder@l.sw0.com · 14 pts · 147d
I should put "Bachelor's in Waffleology" on my resume
OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 147d
Dr. Waffleologist!
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 147d
Keep it up and you'll be the next Waffle King!
arcine@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 146d
You can take this to the limit and make a waffle with infinitely many holes, each infinitely small !
It's just crepes.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 147d
For those who didn't know you can just pour as much syrup as you like, regardless of the square count.
stan_stanminson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 54 pts · 147d
Why we don't make one giant square to hold even more syrup?
yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 147d
The Wa
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 147d
Because then it gets too soggy in the middle. The magic of the waffle is that the tops of the square dividers stay mostly dry until you start cutting into them. So you get freshly syruped waffle throughout the eating process.
Redjard@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 147d
can make it round so the syrup spreads more evenly from the center.
Oops you made pancakes
robyn@lemmy.org · 9 pts · 147d
The evil waffle
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org · 9 pts · 147d
This goes to 17 sqares!
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 147d
What you want is infinite squares, so you get infinite crispy edges
AlreadyDefederated@midwest.social · 2 pts · 147d
Or - here's a radical idea -
EAT A SECOND FUCKING WAFFLE
elbucho@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 147d
I wonder if John Bidwell is haunted by his discovery. I know I would be. That shit is cursed as fuck.
palmtrees2309@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 147d
Aren't Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the "walls" than any shape?
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 23 pts · 147d
This here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically
FishFace@piefed.social · 4 pts · 147d
The honeycomb theorem is actually better than that: there isn't any way to divide up the plane with equal-area shapes (even if it's not a tiling in the sense of having any pattern) it won't be better than hexagons.
But that video can die in a fire!
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 147d
This was my first thought.
A circle filled with hexagons!
unnamedau@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 147d
on one hand, i want a 17-square waffle maker. on the other hand i think i would get brutally murdered by anyone i ever tried to make waffles for
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 147d
If they don't appreciate the 17-square waffle, they don't deserve it.
Etterra@discuss.online · 17 pts · 147d
I keep telling people that you can make nice, even months if you just have 13 of them but nooooo, 13 is a prime number, you can't divide it by 2, 3, 4, or 6! Boo fucking hoo, I want every month in the year to start on the same day of the week.
thessnake03@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d
Found Henry Ford's account
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 147d
Hey, fuck that racist bastard. I just hate trying to remember his many days are in a month because the current system is stupid.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org · 3 pts · 147d
Doesn't add up, either. Plus, you still have leap years and seconds.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 147d
yes it does. 13 even months with one extra day for new years
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org · 4 pts · 147d
So... It doesn't add up.
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 147d
You tack the extra time on the end, shifting what day of the week the 1st falls on for the rest of the year. Instead of the end of February, which is just the most random fucking choice that I can only figure was determined because the calendar was set centuries before we had lightbulbs.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
you haven't looked at the calendar. it works.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 147d
I don't think waffle enjoyers want one more square in the same waffle, they want a specific shape and syrup/butter ratio per square. This waffle bricks that with its thick sections.
kozy138@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 147d
Shapes are dumb.
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 147d
TIL the shape in waffle is to hold syrup.
angrystego@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
It holds blueberries very well too!
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 147d
if the bottom part of the waffle is the inverted shape of the top one, it should fit another waffle. To properly stack them
angrystego@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d
But it's not, so you need blueberries to be able to stack waffles reliably.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 147d
How about 25?
shane@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 146d
If you look at the image on the left you'll see that 5 of the smaller squares won't fit in the big one.
Furbag@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d
This image is cropped so poorly. I've seen the uncropped version recently too...
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 2 pts · 147d
This ruined my day.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 147d
I need to find this waffle iron!
Jarix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 146d
Why would do this?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 147d
Great. Now cut that into 8 equal bites without spilling any syrup.
Fuckin' dumbass. THIS is what is meant by "book smart but not street smart".