Take one of the pizzas mentioned in yesterdays post and make nine straight cuts with a pizza cutter. What is the maximum number of pieces of pizza (not necessarily the same size) that can be created with this approach? Not surprisingly it 46. An illustration of the first few members of this sequence, the Lazy Caterer's Sequence, can be found at http://oeis.org/A000124/a000124.gif. It looks like this:
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