• 74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza : Planet Money : NPR

  tags: mathematics

  • The math of why bigger pizzas are such a good deal is simple: A pizza is a circle, and the area of a circle increases with the square of the radius.
  • So, for example, a 16-inch pizza is actually four times as big as an 8-inch pizza.
  • And when you look at thousands of pizza prices from around the U.S., you see that you almost always get a much, much better deal when you buy a bigger pizza.

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