Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix3.panix.com!not-for-mail From: "Keith F. Lynch" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Household Algebra Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 14:32:35 -0000 (UTC) Organization: United Individualist Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 14:32:35 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix3.panix.com:166.84.1.3"; logging-data="12502"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1711 Lines: 19 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. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.