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English: An example of a ham-sandwich cut (the black line) of a set of eight red and seven blue points in the plane. Because the number of blue points is odd, the line must pass through (exactly) one of them. Such a cut is guaranteed to exist by the ham sandwich theorem .
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17:41, 30 March 2007 441 × 336 (9,948 bytes) w:en:Edemaine ( talk | contribs ) An example of a ham-sandwich cut (black line) of a set of red and blue points in the plane.
17:40, 30 March 2007 744 × 1,052 (9,882 bytes) w:en:Edemaine ( talk | contribs ) An example of a ham-sandwich cut (black line) of a set of red and blue points in the plane.

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30 March 2007