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Cool analysis if you happen to have cylindrical onions and infinitely long knives laying around.
Extending the study to an onion's actual shape, the conclusion would be conical cuts...
Banach-Tarski may be relevant here... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
They also completely missed the point of the two additional cuts method and made the lowest cut about where the highest cut should be.
I store them in the same non-euclidean drawer as my spherical cows.
Oh. I have a soft spot for spherical cows.
Years ago I authored most of the Uncyclopedia page on the topic. Hehe. I see my edits there from 2010.
Do not forget the tessaract
I keep mine next to my frictionless planes and point masses, but somtimes they roll away into the fourth dimension.