the situation is worse than you thought

replied "A half-dozen."

The genuine farm eggs, you buy how many you want, the shopkeeper will just put them in a plastic bag, no silly packageing. If I'm on my way to the supermarket ( It's called walking BTW), I'll ask the shop to keep them for me , and collect them on the way back.

martin

You can do that in the US, if the store is cooperative - you can break the 1 Doz. cartons into smaller pieces, like 2X6, 3X4, etc. If you talk really nice to the store folks, they'd probably sell any arbitrary number of eggs. Just ask!

Cheers! Rich

Which is genuine, the farm or the egg? Free range eggs cost more to produce, the free range foxes keep eating the free range chickens and fox hunting has been banned in Britain. Interesting that you want your eggs in a polymerised ethylene container instead of a hand-woven wicker basket.

(It's called weaving BTW)

I'll stick with papier mache cartons from DecaEgg.

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Speff, I don't quite understand what you mean by "the normal level".

I typically fill my cups about 7/8 full. If that's a "normal level", then 3 of those cups would be 7/8 + 7/8 + 7/8 = 21/8 cups.

Dividing these into 4 cups of equal volume would give four cups each containing 5.25/8 of a cup (neglecting the conic character of the cups, of course).

Discarding one of these cups, and adding the 3 x (5.25/8) cup gives

1.97 cups. So now I'm absolutely baffled how that could ever equal 0.750 cup.

Michael

Whatever level they normally fill them to-- what they consider a full serving.

Sure.

Okay, so there's your 2/5 * 0.875 ("=full") - 5.25/8 in each of four cups.

Indeed. The final emptying would just make an ungodly mess, so just give you one and discard the rest.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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yeah, they make great starters for 'ponics. well, some kind of 'ponics or other, I guess. It behooves one, especially if oyu've only got one, then, it's totally modular, dood!

like, dude, unless you're a girl; on the net, no one knows, you're a paramecium, either.

thus: I would take your ellipse and then ... wait; it's the volume of the melted ice cream in the bottom of a simple waffle cone, when you tilt it & spill some of it?

Use Dandelion's proof with tripolar coordinates.

I can't think of a contradiction; I mean, I just didn't, then.

thus: OK, what is "FR" -- wait, let me guess ... ahm... well, it's Far-out Associative Economical Reality, or some thing.... I don't see how the twin gedanken experiment is really, really going to bother Einstein. Most of the objections, actually seem to occur to advocates of a "speedlimit other than light" or, as we sometimes say in Wonderland, it's not necessarily equal, or it might not have, even, a detectable norm in stories about spaceflight e.g. -- period; and I do have a quasi-literate example to hand; I can't wait to read her next story back to her!... Basically, they need this to sell those spaceships -- the ones that They supposeedly have, or we do, in a hole at "Area X-file....' So, why don't they just require that gerrymandering be restricted to "convex districts," or districts with at most one concavity ... yes, we may need a fractal dimension or so, to actually generate this map. So, you try explaining that to Joe & Jill Sixpack after n six-packs!... I'd hide that 6-pack if I was I, and I just did, if I had it.... I mean, One!... or more.... Anyway, better to ask if they've been to Roswell, soonest. I already found it by way of Massachussetts!... and I do mean, Holes in the Ground.

thus: that was supposed to "be 'a "l.,"' not "a one, although" this punctuation is informal. Like, if you want to say "an one," I won't insist upon "1...." yeah, that's what I did. so, then, I had to prove TO MYSELF that Einstein was real, or at least the norm of the imaginary part of complex real; oops, there's a misplaced semicolon, below: replace it with an "l...." I also resent the timing of the remark about my chum -- I mean, my God-am lawyer!... or, the timing of my ;awyer with respect to your remark; have you photocopied your moniker on a copyout form?... well, that's a penny for you & a penny for me, first installment of _Diary of a Real Insurance Man_, just unscrolling through this chapter, n.

--The Defenders of Relativity: How does Dan-the-man Quayle spell "it?" "Um ... what do you mean, by THAT?"

Well, that's why he drives a bus instead of lecturing, although in this case I guess he DID get to lecture. Hopefully the students (at least engineering and science) discovered he wasn't well educated.

Jon

Yeah, weight has its uses. The latest desktop phone they gave me is so light the damned thing slides towards me every time I use it. I ended up gluing it down.

Jeroen Belleman

A little 'JANSJÖ' Ikea LED desk lamp we bought ($9.99 US/11.99 CAD!) has a crude chunk of cast iron in the base to keep it stable.