What kind of Pi is your favorite? My favorite is pizza! So nice and round with a totally irrational ratio of circumference to diameter, yet so constant. Loaded with yummy number toppings! I sometimes even recite Pi to 15 digits while biting into a delicious crust, with cheese oozing over the sides, savoring the sauce and all the toppings with each bite.
OK, so I'm weird like that. Don't judge me.
I recently moved to Sonora from the Silicon Valley and was happy to see quite a few of the familiar chain pizza restaurants here. But I also kind of miss all the "designer" pizza stores back where I used to live. One of them was a favorite of many local "space ship" employees. Despite the excellent location on Main Street, the store was closed when the company was restructured. In honor of Pi Day and as an homage to the fromage, I came up with this very easy puzzle.
The last day of operation, the space ship employees placed a large order that went something like this:
10 Butcher's Choice pizzas
14 Fire Grilled BBQ Chicken pizzas, 9 with extra sauce
11 Zesty Artichoke pizzas, 2 with extra onions
9 Smokin' Buffalo Chicken pizzas, 1 with extra cilantro
4 Mushroom and Olive pizzas (well, there's no accounting for taste, I guess)
7 Greek Salads
No, cancel the salads.
Make that 7 Spicy Italian pizzas, 3 with extra salami
14 Cheese pizzas, 13 with extra cheese
6 Margherita Da Vinci pizzas
FTF can enjoy some Pi at your favorite pizza place!
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