If you like thin crust pizza and generally do not like crust, you definitely get most bang for your buck ordering the largest size pizza. If you like pan pizza, that thick buttery and crispy crunch crust, then I officially recommend buying MULTIPLE small/medium sized pizzas rather than fewer large sized pizza.
Why? It goes back to the middle school math most of you never understood in the first place.
Area of a circle = (Pi)*r^2
Circumference of a circle = 2(Pi)r
Pizza sizes usually given in terms of diameter which is just 2*r. When you increase the size of your pizza by a half inch, the extra crust you get is given by the derivative of the circumference of a circle which is 2*Pi which is a constant. Therefore as you go from 8" to 10" to 12", the amount of extra crust you get is increasing at the same rate. But as you increase the size of your pie, you get EXPONENTIALLY more non-crust pizza because the derivative of the area of a circle is 2*pi*r which is larger the larger your pie already is.
Because most pizza parlors offer a discount as you increase the size of your pie, this offers a constant dilemma to the crust lover, but for the thin crust eater, you would do well to order exclusively Large or Extra Large pies.
Why? It goes back to the middle school math most of you never understood in the first place.
Area of a circle = (Pi)*r^2
Circumference of a circle = 2(Pi)r
Pizza sizes usually given in terms of diameter which is just 2*r. When you increase the size of your pizza by a half inch, the extra crust you get is given by the derivative of the circumference of a circle which is 2*Pi which is a constant. Therefore as you go from 8" to 10" to 12", the amount of extra crust you get is increasing at the same rate. But as you increase the size of your pie, you get EXPONENTIALLY more non-crust pizza because the derivative of the area of a circle is 2*pi*r which is larger the larger your pie already is.
Because most pizza parlors offer a discount as you increase the size of your pie, this offers a constant dilemma to the crust lover, but for the thin crust eater, you would do well to order exclusively Large or Extra Large pies.
