Nuggets

Hm. Nuggets.

I recall a theory about MacDonalds' nuggets. I believe I heard it from my cousin.

The Theory of the Typical McNugget Shape

Firstly, we postulate that McNuggets come in 3 distinguished shapes: the Foot (also known as the Boot), the Diamond and the Circle.

The Foot-shaped nugget looks precisely the way it is described, but is sometimes affectionately known as Italy (to be honest, wtf?). The Diamond-shaped nugget comes in the form of women's best friend, except it is shaped similar only in 2 planes (X and Y), with a relatively uniform thickness, and is generally considered to be infinitely more tasty, and infinitely less likely to break your teeth (this is a mere hypothesis; you are free to try your teeth on a real diamond if you wish). The Circle-shaped nugget approaches the shape of a circle, hence the very obvious name.

Statistical observation of this phenomenon may be executed by examining the contents of Chicken McNuggets boxes. 3 differently-sized boxes exist for this purpose: boxes designed for 6 nuggets, 9 nuggets and 20 nuggets. Using a pseudorandom number generator passed through a hashing function that will eventually hash any real number to either the integers 6, 9 or 20 (a modulus 3 function for example), one will find that as the number of randomly chosen boxes 'n' increases, the probability of any single nugget shaped like the above appearing will approach 33.3%, with a negligible number of anomalous shapes.

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That marks the end of a basic postulation of the thesis.

Oh and, Wikipedia has something to say on the subject too.


WIKIPEDIA
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A McNugget number is the total number of McDonald's chicken McNuggets in any number of boxes. The original boxes (prior to the introduction of the Happy Meal-sized nugget boxes) were of 6, 9, and 20 nuggets.

According to Schur's theorem, since 6, 9, and 20 are relatively prime, any sufficiently large number can be expressed as a linear combination of these numbers. They are relatively prime because 6=2*3, 9=3*3, and 20=2*2*5, making 1 the greatest common divisor. Therefore, there exists a largest non-McNugget number, and all numbers larger than it are McNugget numbers.
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You are free to verify this on the webpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_problem