Pizzas are the holy matrimony of bread, cheese, sauce, meat and veggies. It’s a wholesome meal which can be eaten when you’re happy or sad or celebrating or depressed. You can have it for breakfast, lunch, snacks or dinner because it’s always…
But, unless you’re a millionaire or something, you’re always looking to eat the maximum amount of pizza by spending the least amount of money, right? And I can bet most of you have ordered smaller pizzas because they cost lesser than the large pizzas. Well, turns out, you might’ve been making a huge mistake.
Twitter user @fermatslibrary burst the internet’s bubble about being frugal when it comes to pizzas by saying that one 18-inch pizza has more ‘pizza’ that two 12-inch pizzas.
Here's a useful counterintuitive fact: one 18 inch pizza has more 'pizza' than two 12 inch pizzas pic.twitter.com/hePSpG0pJs
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) January 7, 2019
Is your mind blown yet? Well then, welcome to the club.
This pizza-based equation elicited a lot of hilarious and confused responses from netizens. Here are a few:
this is the most I’ve ever liked math https://t.co/TBayr1Fain
— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) January 7, 2019
Get 👏 the 👏 most 👏 out 👏 of 👏 your 👏 pizza 👏 https://t.co/rNE0jhoeSq
— Jacob (@largehotcoffee) January 8, 2019
The pizza industry has known this for years but kept their studies hidden. Thanks for speaking truth to power, Andy.
— Dale Jackson (@DaleJacksonPI) January 7, 2019
3 x 12 inch pizzas means triple the choice in topics & more pizza than 1 x 18 inch pizza. Gotcha! 👍🏽 pic.twitter.com/l360Q9zs9t
— #NHFTHR 👇🏽 (@NHFTHR) January 7, 2019
Math FTW https://t.co/EiX5K8BKIp
— Mitch Kosterman (@MitchKosterman) January 7, 2019
— Mark Sykes (@MarkSykes15) January 7, 2019
Finally! I can now coherently explain to my 10 year-old why math is important in life: without math, you might unknowingly spend more for less pizza!
— South Jersey Techy (@SJTechy) January 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/RickestOf_Ricks/status/1082285108537769986
https://twitter.com/fergusonelaine/status/1082279331559337985
— himbo connoisseur (@apleasantpossum) January 7, 2019
You're not encouraging me to eat smaller pizzas, here… pic.twitter.com/HEBoEqxdVm
— Chris Armstrong (@DrCDArmstrong) January 7, 2019
However, everyone wasn’t as convinced by the theory and countered it with their own cheese-filled ones.
Yeah, but the crust is arguably the best part and two 12 inch pizzas have 33.3% more crust than a 18 inch pizza. And now I'm hungry, thanks @fermatslibrary! pic.twitter.com/ZUfGicpcWG
— Tamás Görbe (@TamasGorbe) January 7, 2019
Unless you like stuffed crusts or pizza crust in general, in which case you get 1/3 extra on 2 x 12" than 1 x 18".https://t.co/QU56AxMcYT
— 418: No Coffee 4 U 🤖 (@ramriot) January 7, 2019
But pizzas aren't 2-dimensional. What is the volume of a pizza with radius z and depth a?
— Matthew Prorok (@MJtheProphet) January 7, 2019
So, are you going to change pizza ordering choices after seeing this equation? Or are you going to stick with the medium and small ones? Please let us know in the comments.