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Viral Tweet Explains The Math To Get More Pizza Per Order

Darpan News Desk IANS, 16 Jan, 2019 03:30 AM

    Contrary to what you might have argued your whole life, mathematics does have a few practical applications as well. It can, for example, help you decide how to get the most pizza for your buck.

     

    A tweet going viral on the Internet right now explains how ordering an 18-inch pizza is better than ordering two 12-inch pizzas. Confused? Take a look:

     
     

    The tweet explains how, simply by calculating the area of a circle, one can reach the conclusion that an 18-inch pizza serves 254 square inches of food, whereas two 12-inch pizzas have only 226 square inches.

     

    Surprised? Well, numbers don't lie.

     

    Here's how people reacted to the revelation:

     
     
     
     
     
     

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