Half

It is my habit to borrow books for Euterpe from our local public library every week. One of the book that I recently picked - by accident, I must say - was McMug Halves a Cake.

To my surprise, the story turns out to be exceptionally illuminating for even an adult.

Since I must have spoiled your appetite recently, let me share the story with you here.

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McMug and McDull made a a large cream cake. They used flour, sugar, eggs, butter, cream, and lots of fruits - cherries, strawberries, pineapples, kiwis, and what not.

When the cake was done, they shared it with each other. McMug brought a knife and cut it carefully.

The cake was duly halved. Just that when McDull took a close look, he found that his share had one fewer cherry than McMug's.

They decided to make a further division to make everything equal.

That's done. The cherries were even out. But, when they looked at it now, the share of McMug had half a slice of kiwi fewer than his friend.

The two decided to cut the cake further to make sure there's no inequality. They chopped and cut and incised and, after a much hard work, they finished.

This time, they were satisfied. The two shares had the same amount of cream, same number of cherry, strawberry, pineapple, kiwi, and everything.

But, the two pigs were not happy ... because the cake was minced to all crumbs and debris !