Aaron Tovish
Aug 4, 2024

I object, your honor!

When the knife leaves the first apple it has been used... once. (The knife in the figure is not long enough to do both at once.) Any further action is a second use.

However if you arrange the apples chiralwise and so they touch at the point of the desired cuts then it would be less obectionable.

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