Can you "do" Maths?

[dude69]

Nope. The largest round pizza you can fit on a round plate is a round pizza. No maths required. The same would be true for a square plate, where a square pizza would be the largest you could fit on it. I think it unlikely that she had a square plate.

While you might be ok at maths, English comprehension is also important.

It was a pie, not a pizza.

Pies fit perfectly in their dishes. The size of the plate is irrelevant, because you are eating whatever was in the dish.

[TimberWolf]

While you might be ok at maths, English comprehension is also important.

It was a pie, not a pizza.

Pies fit perfectly in their dishes. The size of the plate is irrelevant, because you are eating whatever was in the dish.

I didn't say it was a pie, I said it was a pizza. See below.

Whose dishes?

The original statement was "you get almost 25% more pie in a square pie than a round one at a restaurant". This is wrong. (strickly speaking pies describe volumes not areas also, and a pizza better describes the error of the situation). Your calculation (which I imagine you have now disowned?) is also wrong. What were you calculating if not a circumscribed square?

[EternalOptimist]

What were you calculating if not a circumscribed square?

I think circumscribing a square is ok, provided it is done young, and for sound medical reasons

[Churchill]

I didn't say it was a pie, I said it was a pizza. See below.

Whose dishes?

The original statement was "you get almost 25% more pie in a square pie than a round one at a restaurant". This is wrong. (strickly speaking pies describe volumes not areas also, and a pizza better describes the error of the situation). Your calculation (which I imagine you have now disowned?) is also wrong. What were you calculating if not a circumscribed square?

Ok, if you like maths, square a circle!

[TimberWolf]

Ok, if you like maths, square a circle!

I haven't got a non-Euclidean compass on me. It can be done in Gauss-Bolyai-Lobachevsky space though, apparently. In real life it just takes a lot of force.