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How Many Slices Does a Mandarin Have?

15+ hour, 17+ min ago  (434+ words) Many biological structures display pleasing numerical regularities. Flowers, for example, often exhibit fixed numbers of petals, a phenomenon that has reassured botanists for centuries and provided schoolchildren with something reliable in an otherwise unpredictable world. A further conceptual puzzle emerged....