Cheese Comparison

Every Thursday, the big square in front of the New Church in Delft is filled with market stands. Today, you brought your formidable cheese wheels\footnotemark{} to the market for the first time, and to optimize sales, you need to position your cheese wheels in an appealing way. From your experience of playing with blocks as a child, you know that the cheese wheels will look most appealing when they are ordered by weight, from small to large.1

Ordering the cheese wheels would have been easy, if you had brought your highly accurate digital cheese-weighing scale. However, due to unfortunate planning at your cheese factory, you only have a balancing scale with you. The market is already starting to fill up with potential customers, so you hurriedly start comparing cheese wheels to order them from lightest to heaviest.

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1A cheese wheel is large, circular, typically yellow, has a crust on the outside to keep the cheese inside fresh, and can weigh several kilos.