Re: Household Algebra

Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> 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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