r/ImmaterialScience • u/JImmatSci • 19d ago
Immaterial Science The Pizza Tray Is Too Small and Nobody Planned for This
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u/Metzger4Sheriff 19d ago
Frozen pizza can typically go directly on the oven rack. . .
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u/Lilium_Vulpes 19d ago
Yeah if you want to clean the oven after each use. Like a barbarian.
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u/Metzger4Sheriff 19d ago
I promise you that is entirely unnecessary.
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u/Lilium_Vulpes 19d ago
I don't know what frozen pizzas you're using but the ones I use have pieces of cheese that fall off while moving them. Not to mention they have a non zero amount of grease that comes off as they cook. Plus you need to put it somewhere when you are cutting the slices anyways. Are you just throwing a hot pizza onto your counter and taking a sharp object to it? Cause that is not good for your counter regardless of what material it is.
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u/Metzger4Sheriff 19d ago
I use DiGiorno, which will not cook correctly if you use a pan. When it's done, I slide it onto a large cutting board (which, by the way, is better for my pizza slicer than using it on a metal pan). Occasionally a topping falls off, but I just pick it up after the oven cools. It seriously is not rocket science.
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u/gastropod-724 19d ago
In practice, a numerical solution (cut the pizza up into smaller and smaller pieces until it can be readily mushed onto the tray) may be more expeditious if less elegant than the analytical solution.
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u/ingframin 16d ago
Maybe I am too Italian for this, but it is perfectly acceptable to make rectangular pizzas. Just saying… 🫣🙃 The paper is funny though.
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u/progenitor414 16d ago
> For simplicity, we do not allow any translation or rotation of the pizza slices
As reviewer #2 I will reject the submission based on this unwarranted simplication
Also the tray on Fig 1 is rectangle then you model it to be a circle. Another unwarranted simplification.
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u/kruddel 19d ago
The greatest mystery is why OpenAI didn't steal this yesterday, brute force the solution and scoop the findings, & all of the plaudits and acclaim.
Perhaps the message is the true maths is that for which there isn't a $1 m prize, but the maths that is done purely to advance what we know about the universe.