At 3:40 AM 7/27/96, Rollo Silver wrote:

Tim May said: << ObCrypto Sidebar: The "fair" method for dividing a pie between two people

I (RS) believe Claude Shannon proposed the following N-person pie-cutting algorithm more than 25 years ago:

Thanks! I should've suspected that The Master had worked on this problem.

Tim May: as a Licensed Ontologist, do you know who made the wiseassed (but deep) remark "Ontology recapitulates Philology"? or for that matter, "Oncology recapitulates Proctology".

No, but my friend Chip Morningstar pointed out that "ontology recapitulates philately," (For those befuddled by these jokes, the biological original was "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," which means that the morphological development of a fetus in the womb retraces, or recapitulates, the morphological development throughout history of the species, roughly. Thus, gills, fins, etc.) --Tim Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."