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The twisted secret to snapping spaghetti strands into two

14 Aug 2018 Hamish Johnston
Spaghetti snapper
Snap to it: how to break spaghetti into exactly two pieces. (Courtesy: MIT)
It seemed impossible, but two mathematicians in the US have come up with a way of snapping a strand

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