What is the formula for the volume of a thick crust pizza?

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The discussion revolves around the formula for calculating the volume of a thick crust pizza, specifically focusing on the mathematical expression involving height and radius. The conversation touches on mathematical reasoning and playful humor related to mathematics and physics.

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  • Mathematical reasoning
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  • One participant suggests the formula for the volume of a thick crust pizza as $$\pi(\text{radius})^2(\text{height})$$, specifically noting it as $$\pi.z.z.a$$ where $$a$$ is height and $$z$$ is radius.
  • Several posts include humorous anecdotes involving mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, illustrating different perspectives on reasoning and measurement, but do not directly contribute to the pizza volume discussion.
  • Multiple jokes and stories are shared that reflect on logical reasoning and mathematical concepts, but they do not provide further clarification on the pizza volume formula.

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The discussion does not reach a consensus on the formula for the volume of a thick crust pizza, as the main focus shifts to humor and anecdotes rather than a rigorous mathematical debate.

Contextual Notes

The initial claim regarding the volume formula is presented without further elaboration or verification from other participants, leaving the mathematical basis somewhat unexamined.

  • #61
Well that's dumb, it's CLEAR the answer isn't 24...or is it...?
 
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  • #62
Of course, the answer is always 42.
 
  • #63
Fantini said:
Of course, the answer is always 42.

Uh... how is it 42? :confused:
 
  • #64
I like Serena said:
Uh... how is it 42? :confused:

Because 42.

:P

(It's a movie reference)
 
  • #65
  • #66
I like Serena said:
Uh... how is it 42? :confused:

Well, clearly...by symmetry!
 
  • #67
I couldn't resist posting any joke that has something to do with the corns!(Sun)

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  • #68

. . \boxed{\begin{array}{c}\text{This sentence} \\ \text{no verb.} \end{array}}
 
  • #69
The importance of quotation marks

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  • #70

Why was the identity \sin2r \,=\,2\sin r refused a loan?

He needed a \cos r.
 
  • #72


What is the difference between Ignorance and Apathy?

I don't know and I don't care.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .If a man speaks in a forest
and there is no woman to hear him,
is he still wrong?
 
  • #73


A man was recently frozen to Absolute Zero.

He's 0 K. now.

 
  • #74
There are two formal theories for arguing with women.

Both of them are inconsistent.
 
  • #75

There are two kinds of people:

those who can extrapolate from insufficient data.

 
  • #76
There are tow typos of people in the world.
 
  • #77
There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
(or)
There are two kinds of people: those who know how to write, and
 
  • #78
Corollary: there are 2 types of integers-odd ones, and perfectly normal ones.
 
  • #79

. . . . . My Two Secrets for Success1. Never tell anyone everything you know.
 
  • #80

I've always been fascinated by this palindrome.

. . . . \boxed{\text{ NEVER ODD OR EVEN } }
 
  • #81
Alcohol and calculus don't mix.

Never drink and derive.
 
  • #82

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  • #84
Cat is the inverse of a bird.

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  • #85
I am still not sure why I need to put the cake in the oven at $120^\circ$.

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  • #86
Evgeny.Makarov said:
I am still not sure why I need to put the cake in the oven at $120^\circ$.

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Well, it makes more sense than 2/3rds of a pie radians.
 
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  • #89
Well, the books are at room temperature, and the brain is at body temperature, so the second law of thermodynamics dictates that the books suck the life out of your brain.

Also, the skull is not a permeable membrane...this is so we don't look like pufferfish, and thus are not hunted by sushi chefs, thereby increasing the chance that our species' DNA will continue to propagate.

"There's got to be a rational explanation!" -any scientist in any horror film
 
  • #90
Snakes on a Plane

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