--- title: Here's How to Maximize Your Pizza Using Math description: How to get the most pizza bang for your buck. canonical: https://time.com/4419238/heres-how-to-get-more-pizza-for-your-money-by-using-math/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-22T16:53:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:42.167Z og:title: Here's How to Get More Pizza For Your Money By Using Math og:description: Get the most pizza bang for your pizza bucks og:url: https://time.com/4419238/heres-how-to-get-more-pizza-for-your-money-by-using-math/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f8d36fe1a71e716/698898d0bc6cfcebbc3dd7fe/pizza-police-call.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Pizza og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How to Get More Pizza For Your Money By Using Math twitter:description: Get the most pizza bang for your pizza bucks twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f8d36fe1a71e716/698898d0bc6cfcebbc3dd7fe/pizza-police-call.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's How to Get More Pizza for Your Money By Using Math by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 22, 2016 4:53 PM UTC  Pizza isolated on the white background Pizza isolated on the white backgroundIssaurinko—iStockphoto/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 22, 2016 4:53 PM UTC Even if you don’t remember much from your high school math classes, you know that [pizza](http://time.com/4313401/pizza-box-vinnies-pizzeria/?iid=sr-link1) is a circle and the best way to divide a circle is by using math. (Hopefully that didn’t kill your appetite!) A new video from YouTube channel [ASAP Science](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC552Sd-3nyi%5Ftk2BudLUzA) breaks down how to maximize your pizza consumption, using math. If you have an eight-inch pizza, that’s roughly 50 square inches of [cheese-covered delicousness](http://time.com/4376706/woman-calls-911-cheese-pizza/?iid=sr-link7), but if you get a 16-inch pie, which is double the diameter, the area of the [pizza](http://time.com/4043383/rat-pizza-slice-subway/?iid=sr-link2) jumps up to 200 square inches of a piping hot pepperoni and pineapple feast. For those playing along at home, that’s four times the pie. You can take that information right to the bank, too, because it could save you money. If your neighborhood [pizza](http://time.com/4283759/exercise-running-food-calories/?iid=sr-link8) parlor is charging even twice as much for a 16-inch pie than for an eight-inch one, you’re still getting a bargain. In short, the bigger diameter of the pizza, the more bang for your buck. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4419238/heres-how-to-get-more-pizza-for-your-money-by-using-math/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4419238/heres-how-to-get-more-pizza-for-your-money-by-using-math/"},"headline":"Here's How to Get More Pizza for Your Money By Using Math","datePublished":"2016-07-22T16:53:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:42.167Z","description":"Eat your homework","url":"https://time.com/4419238/heres-how-to-get-more-pizza-for-your-money-by-using-math/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Pizza","Math","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f8d36fe1a71e716/698898d0bc6cfcebbc3dd7fe/pizza-police-call.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f8d36fe1a71e716/698898d0bc6cfcebbc3dd7fe/pizza-police-call.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pizza","caption":"Pizza","creditText":"Issaurinko—iStockphoto/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4419238/heres-how-to-get-more-pizza-for-your-money-by-using-math/","name":"Here's How to Get More Pizza for Your Money By Using Math"}}]}] ```