How to cut a cake almost fairly

S.O. Krumke; M. Lipmann; W. de Paepe; D. Poensgen; J. Rambau; L. Stougie; Gerhard Woeginger

How to cut a cake almost fairly

S.O. Krumke, M. Lipmann, W. de Paepe, D. Poensgen, J. Rambau, L. Stougie, Gerhard Woeginger

Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming

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Abstract

In the cake cutting problem, n ≥ 2 players want to cut a cake into n pieces so that every player gets a "fair" share of the cake by his own measure. We describe a protocol with n - 1 cuts in which each player can enforce to get a share of at least 1/(2n - 2) of the cake. Moreover we show that no protocol with n - 1 cuts can guarantee a better fraction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'2002)
Place of Publication	New York, USA
Publisher	ACM Press
Pages	263-264
ISBN (Print)	0-89871-513-X
Publication status	Published - 2002
Event	13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algortihms, SODA 2002 - Radisson Miyako Hotel, San Francisco, United States Duration: 6 Jan 2002 → 8 Jan 2002 Conference number: 13 https://archive.siam.org/meetings/da02/

Conference

Conference	13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algortihms, SODA 2002
Abbreviated title	SODA 2002
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	6/01/02 → 8/01/02
Internet address	https://archive.siam.org/meetings/da02/

Keywords

METIS-208657

Access to Document

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=545415

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Krumke, SO, Lipmann, M, de Paepe, W, Poensgen, D, Rambau, J, Stougie, L & Woeginger, G 2002, How to cut a cake almost fairly. in Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'2002). ACM Press, New York, USA, pp. 263-264, 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algortihms, SODA 2002, San Francisco, California, United States, 6/01/02. <https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=545415>

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