CC BY-SA 4.0 UnportedFrick, Florian2024-10-162024-10-162023https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/16858https://doi.org/10.34657/15880How can we fairly divide a necklace with various types of beads? We use this problem as a motivating example to explain how geometry naturally appears in solutions of non-geometric problems. The strategy we develop to solve this problem has been used in several other contexts.enghttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/510Discrete Mathematics and FoundationsGeometry and TopologyReport