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                     How to measure 5/6 cup of oil, part II
                                        
I just received an email from D. J. about a fifteen year old post [1] which
mentioned bad math books and tagentially about measuring oil. It was unusual
in that D. J. not only read the post (and enjoyed it) but also mentioned an
alternative way of measuring 5/6 cup of oil using a simpler method than the
insane one I came up with at the time. D. J.'s method is to meausre out 4/3
cups and then removing ½ cup. I guess D. J. is better at fractions than I am.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/01/21.1

Email author at sean@conman.org

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