From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/1/24 7:38 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
   >   
   > On another forum, I remarked that I frequently use high-school algebra   
   > in my sewing.  Tonight I need it for cooking -- I forgot to buy baking   
   > chocolate, but I have nine .88-ounce bars of 85% eating chocolate, and   
   > need four ounces to make a cake.   
   >   
   > I think I'm gonna need a calculator.   
   >   
   > Or, perhaps, I could just put them all in:   
   >    .88 x 9 x .85 = 7.92 x .85 = 6.732   
   >   
   > Sanity check:  .85 x .88 = .748 oz/bar, three-fourths of nine is six   
   > and three fourths.   
   >   
   > I usually put all four ounces into half a recipe, but this year I'm   
   > making a whole cake, so half again too much is going to be rather   
   > feeble chocolate.   
   >   
   > I'd better make sure I have four eggs.   
   >   
   >   
   > I did check that I have a cup of pecans.   
      
   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).   
      
   --   
   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn, @eleeper@mastodon.social   
   Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick   
   themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.   
   --Sir Winston Churchill   
      
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