I'd like to thank my math teachers and the book "Thinking With A Pencil" for today's meal planning: I bought a great big ham to bake (and have tasty leftovers later), and the darned thing is clean off the table of cooking times for given weight ranges on the label.
A quick X-Y plot of times vs. weights, a fitted curve, and whattya know? Two hours, plus or minus about ten minutes. Most of the vegetables can go in early, and bask in the hammy goodness.
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1 year ago
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The RCA AVQ-10 radar we had at my first full-time job had a chart showing how to calculate thunderstorm tops using distance and degrees of antenna tilt, adjusted for earth's curvature. the chart ended at 40,000 feet, and we needed more. I took the chart and interpolated the curves through 60,000 feet.
I haven't done any fancy math since college over 40 years ago. That's what computers are for. :)
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