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excerpt: "Having read Zelijko Nastasic’s pizza challenge (how many windows can you open?) in Volume 5 issue 4, I set the same problem to my second year students, but with more stringent control (size of window, maximum delay for any window operation, etc.) leaving them a free choice of computer system."
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# The Great Pizza Challenge

Having read Zelijko Nastasic’s pizza challenge (how many windows can you open?) in Volume 5 issue 4, I set the same problem to my second year students, but with more stringent control (size of window, maximum delay for any window operation, etc.) leaving them a free choice of computer system.