# Counting 1 - Counting 1#5378

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opened this Issue Nov 2, 2011 · 2 comments

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commented Nov 2, 2011

Reporter: grioux@msn.com

A baker has a whole loaf of bread. How many cuts must she make to have 12 slices? Ans. 11. However, if you make three vertical cuts and two horizontal cuts you can do it in five :)

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Not a bug / Clever

Ha! He is correct though that wasn't the intention of the exercise.

Although with the word 'slices', I don't think cutting it in that way would result in what i would call bread 'slices' though they would all be equal sized pieces.

If it had to be changed, maybe something along the lines of "breaking a stick x number of times to get x pieces" but It''s probably fine as is in most cases.

See issue #5471

added a commit that closed this issue Nov 29, 2011
 beneater Clarify wording in counting_1 fix #5378; fix #5066; fix #5471; fix #5717; fix #5685; fix #4980; fix #7111 d045ca5
closed this in d045ca5 Nov 29, 2011