Except the 17 square version holds less syrup than the 16 square version because you need to reduce the size of the squares to fit more of them.
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If you take the original 16 squares and reduce them each in half, you can have 32 squares. Doctorate now, please.
If the squares are half the size, you get 4x the number of squares, assuming you're measuring side length and not area.
Oh hey sorry I didn't know you went to school for this shit. Fine. you make the waffles.
One square is the optimal waffle if you’re optimizing for syrup volume alone.
I will put you to work testing this theory.
Proceed with waffle preparation and delivery, I'll be waiting, and will provide my own syrup. Please note all waffles are to be gluten-free, as my body hates me and the things I enjoy.
If you serve the syrup in a cup, then the syrup to waffle ratio is infinite.
I post this comment quite often, but a number divided by zero is not infinity, so the syrup to waffle ratio would actually be undefined.
Fine, as the quantity of waffle approaches zero, the syrup to waffle ratio approaches infinity.
This tracks because I'm always left with syrup on my plate after finishing the waffle. So I've independently verified your hypothesis.
Give this man a medal
Why even have a waffle at all, let's drink the syrup!
I should put "Bachelor's in Waffleology" on my resume
Dr. Waffleologist!
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You can take this to the limit and make a waffle with infinitely many holes, each infinitely small !
It's just crepes.
For those who didn't know you can just pour as much syrup as you like, regardless of the square count.
Why we don't make one giant square to hold even more syrup?
The Wa
Because then it gets too soggy in the middle. The magic of the waffle is that the tops of the square dividers stay mostly dry until you start cutting into them. So you get freshly syruped waffle throughout the eating process.
can make it round so the syrup spreads more evenly from the center.
Oops you made pancakes
This goes to 17 sqares!
The evil waffle
Or - here's a radical idea -
EAT A SECOND FUCKING WAFFLE
I wonder if John Bidwell is haunted by his discovery. I know I would be. That shit is cursed as fuck.
Aren't Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the "walls" than any shape?
This here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically
The honeycomb theorem is actually better than that: there isn't any way to divide up the plane with equal-area shapes (even if it's not a tiling in the sense of having any pattern) it won't be better than hexagons.
But that video can die in a fire!
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on one hand, i want a 17-square waffle maker. on the other hand i think i would get brutally murdered by anyone i ever tried to make waffles for
If they don't appreciate the 17-square waffle, they don't deserve it.
I keep telling people that you can make nice, even months if you just have 13 of them but nooooo, 13 is a prime number, you can't divide it by 2, 3, 4, or 6! Boo fucking hoo, I want every month in the year to start on the same day of the week.
Doesn't add up, either. Plus, you still have leap years and seconds.
yes it does. 13 even months with one extra day for new years
So... It doesn't add up.
you haven't looked at the calendar. it works.
You tack the extra time on the end, shifting what day of the week the 1st falls on for the rest of the year. Instead of the end of February, which is just the most random fucking choice that I can only figure was determined because the calendar was set centuries before we had lightbulbs.
Found Henry Ford's account
Hey, fuck that racist bastard. I just hate trying to remember his many days are in a month because the current system is stupid.
365/13 is 28.07 - what are you doing with the extra day? + leap years too
The last month is 1 day longer (or 2 on a leap year) which resets the sequence. So exactly 4 weeks per month until the end, then new years has a buffer day.
Lol, you've got my vote
I don't think waffle enjoyers want one more square in the same waffle, they want a specific shape and syrup/butter ratio per square. This waffle bricks that with its thick sections.
Shapes are dumb.
How about 25?
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If you look at the image on the left you'll see that 5 of the smaller squares won't fit in the big one.
This image is cropped so poorly. I've seen the uncropped version recently too...
Why would do this?
I need to find this waffle iron!
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