TY - GEN A1 - Krumke, Sven A1 - Lipmann, Maarten A1 - Paepe, Willem de A1 - Poensgen, Diana A1 - Rambau, Jörg A1 - Stougie, Leen A1 - Woeginger, Gerhard T1 - How to Cut a Cake Almost Fairly N2 - In the cake cutting problem, $n\ge2$ players want to cut a cake into $n$ pieces so that every player gets a ``fair'' share of the cake by his own measure. We describe a protocol with $n-1$~cuts in which each player can enforce to get a share of at least~$1/(2n-2)$. Moreover we show that no protocol with $n-1$~cuts can guarantee a better fraction. T3 - ZIB-Report - 02-23 KW - Fair division KW - cake cutting Y1 - 2002 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-6905 ER -