Have you ever felt proud of yourself because you have cut a cake perfectly, displaying all its stacked layers and gave it justice? Well, we're telling you it's still not the best way.

Cutting a round cake in wedges maybe the most common and have been the convention all our lives but it is not the "scientific" way to do it.

According to writer and mathematician Alex Bellos, the most efficient and left over-proof way of slicing a cake is by cutting it down the middle and by removing the long, rectangular piece at a time. This way, you allow the two halves, then four quarters be pushed back together again, ready for storage.

Bellos said that cutting wedges makes the exposed sides of the remaining cake dry and many foreign things can penetrate it.

This method, he says, makes more sense. He even cited letter to the editor, featured in Nature, a science magazine which dates back to December 1906, making this way age a century and more.

Watch the video and cut your cake this way on your next birthday!