There is a “Chicken McNugget’s Theorem,” but there should not be one.
The real reason is the “cute” name “Chicken McNugget’s Theorem.” If it’s “cute” then more will remember it and use it. Cuteness in general, and anthropomorphic cuteness in particular, is the byword for educating children and adults too. We might not understand it unless a blòódy dancing McNugget explains it to us.
According to the Wikipedia article the “Chicken McNugget’s Theorem” is a “special case” of the Frobenius coin problem. The supposed reason it is special is that boxes of chicken nuggets were sold in units of 6, 9, and 20.”
Now, let’s put on our “thinking caps,” and consider these cute numbers: 6, 9, and 20.
The “thinking caps” work well: There is nothing special about these numbers—it’s just one set of an infinite number of sets that have a Frobenius number.
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