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If you have been folowing the account his week, you might have guessed that I have a thing for definitions and debates over definitions.

What is a metal?



What is a metamaterial?



And now: what is a cake?

That is the discussion that delayed our lab's (@LNM_eth) baking competitions.

Do cakes need to be sweet?

Are all cakes flour based?

Are all cakes layered?

Are all cakes round?

(and much more)
Maybe the reason for this discussion is that we discussed it in Switzerland, a country known for its polyglotism:

Turns out that @Wikipedia defines it differently in different languages!

In French, for example, salty cakes pass the filter:

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A2te…
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