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2017-12-18

With todays puzzle does the pancake have any thickness i.e can we slice the pancake into 2 circular pancakes each with half the thickness or are we to assume its 2D

Alex
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2017-12-18

@Alex: Assume the pancake is 2D

Matthew
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