26 Jul 2012 12:42
How Do You Arrange Your Cheez-Its? [#3]
Posted by Steve under Food , Health , Misc & Plus , ScienceComment on this post
[Note added 2012/07/26 4:42PM EDT: The Spider-Man designs appear on only one side of each Amazing Spider-Man Cheez-It. Crackers were arranged design-side up.]
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My friendly neighborhood Shop-Rite is carrying more and more varieties of Cheez-Its lately, but it didn’t take long to decide on The Amazing Spider-Man Cheez-Its. The top reasons? 1. Serving size is a sum of consecutive squares. |
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Figure 1. A serving of The Amazing Spider-Man Cheez-Its arranged as a frustum. |
The Amazing Spider-Man Cheez-It is not the perfect food, but it’s closer to it than Cheez-It BIG Monterey Jack. Spideys taste almost like the original, but they’re a little too hard and crunchy. I can’t imagine eating an entire box in one sitting.
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Figure 2. The Pythagorean identity 3² + 4² = 5² was applied to the previous serving. |
The Amazing Spider-Man Cheez-Its are slightly less uniform in size and shape than regular Cheez-Its or Cheez-Its BIG. The crackers chosen for these figures are a more uniform sample than one would expect in a random serving.
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Figure 3. Another sum-of-squares serving of The Amazing Spider-Man Cheez-Its. |
Another Steve on the internet has written more about The Amazing Spider-Man Cheez-Its, so I’ll just wrap up with two more arrangements. You should definitely head over to the other Steve’s blog when you’re done here.
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Figure 4. One serving of The Amazing Spider-Man Cheez-Its. (Aztec arrangement) |
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Figure 5. A variation of Figure 4 with more symmetry. |
