Pizza Sizes

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Pizza pi are round!

If aliens had pizza eyes, they would be extremely popular when they arrived. But if their invasion takes more than 30 minutes, your next invasion is free.

If you were to compare the area of two nine-inch pizzas, it should come as no surprise that you get less than you would with one eighteen-inch pizza. In fact, four nine-inch pizzas would have the same area as one eighteen-inch pizza.

Less obvious would be to compare two 12-inch pizzas vs. one 18-inch pizza.

Believe it or not, you not only get more with one 18-inch, but you get more with one 18-inch that with two 12-inch pizzas.

One 12-inch pizza, with a radius of 6 inches, has an area of 36pi in², and two would have an area of 72pi in². One 18-inch pizza, with a radius of 9 inches, has an area of 81pi in².

That's like getting a ninth slice on an eight slice pi! Er, "pie"!

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