We received the following pertinent comment from
an Archimedes' Lab fan:
Dear sirs,
I love your site. You are doing a really great job.
About "A square cake" puzzle (Puzzles of the Month, June 2001,
Puzzle #1):
I wonder how comes you give the following complicate solution for slicing
a square quake into 6 equal parts with 3 strait cuts instead of the
most evident and simpler one:
Our
answer: Dear Alkis
Piskas, you are perfectly right, thanks for having pointed
it out! But this method has the advantage to allow you to cut
the cake either into
pair or
into odd
numbers
(larger
than 3) of portions.