Diner Pancake vs. Homemade Pancake
An annotated comparison of a perfectly circular diner pancake and a lumpy homemade one with a 'fractal' edge.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2023-01-01-diner-pancake-vs-homemade-pancake/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Diner Pancake] "emerges from kitchen in 12 to 14 seconds" · "mathematically perfect disk" · "various applications in industrial engineering" · "enough food for 300 breakfasts"
[Homemade Pancake] "takes several hours to make a dozen" · "fractal dimension" · "ugly as sin, yet twice as sweet" · "enough food for 0.25 breakfasts"