the elusive orange
 

So my friend and I were really bored last night and we started talking about oranges. It came to the point where we couldn't agree on how many wedges make up an orange. She said 10 and I said 8. Obviously the easiest thing to do would be to go out and buy a freakin orange and find out, but alas, we are poor starving college kids sharing rent with the mice downstairs and can't afford fresh fruit.

So I ask you: how many do you think it is?

five. five is the number that solves everything.

The ones I buy have 666 slices.

4, you can do it in quarters...

1, an orange is one slice... Just put the entire thing in your mouth

*sigh* This forum really need a Random topic section again.

However, I think it's 6.

IHMN, your suggesting no slices...

1 slice would be making a cut, then unwrapping it without any breaks...

And its all about how you cut the orange really...like asking how many little breakaway parts there are to a banana...

8. Cut once for halves, then twice more for quarters. Now four more times for eights. Only way to eat an orange. Or else whole, like IHMN stated.

I think what's being referred to is how many partioned sections are already present in the orange. In the average orange there are 8, but I think there are exceptions; some have 6. I usually eat pears, but I nicked one off my flatmate. We rich postgrads can afford fruit and veg.

Like Johnny, I go with 5, since its difficult to cut an orange into 23 slices. Baring that, 7, or 13, or 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 slices will do.

Edit: 9, or 10, or 11, or 12, or... ah screw it and eat the damn orange!