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Discussion on: Oversized Pancake Flipper - Google Code Jam

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Lorenzo Mele
  • Does it work in any case?

I cannot show you the mathematical explanation but I have some hints.
Let's take the example of the post but reversed:

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These are exactly the same flips made above.

I think the key point here is that you should never touch happy pancakes, unless forced to do so because of a nearest unhappy one.