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ing through the room for ever, but that the number of children who pass through the room, now that the share of each child is 0 (zero), will have to be determined by the number of children that there are in the school, or the parish, or wherever it is that the children are supposed to come from; and not by the size of the cake. The size of the cake has no longer anything to do with answering the question: "How many children can pass through the room before the cake is all eaten?"

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