From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   > I can remember figuring out what proportions of evaporated milk   
   > and non-fat milk I needed to get the equivalent of whole milk.   
      
   > I also use Diophantine equations to figure out how to apportion the   
   > cost of a $5 bag of books and DVDs to the individual items (which I   
   > admit may be a bit obsessive).   
      
   ObFandom:  When I was WSFA's secretary, one of my tasks was to take   
   attendance by circulating a sign-in sheet.  It had the names of the   
   people most likely to show up for those people to put checkmarks by,   
   and blank spaces for unexpected people to write in their names.   
      
   So I got super-obsessive at trying to figure out, using *decades* of   
   past attendance data, what the best algorithm was for deciding which   
   people are the most likely to show up.  I ended up using a combination   
   Fourier-Laplace transform.   
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