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Posted on: December 18, 2008 10:13 PM, by Greg Laden

We've been doing a lot of math in our house lately. Amanda is working out the relationship between ATPase production and force in muscle (turns out that requires piles of math) and Julia is learning Algebra. Meanwhile, I've mainly been cooking dinner. Like this:

OK, OK, so that one does not work so well. This one is infallible:

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Nope - broccoli. Did I miss something?

Posted by: Stacy S. | December 18, 2008 10:25 PM

I thought carrot. My wife thought green pepper.

Posted by: Greg Laden | December 18, 2008 10:30 PM

Tomato.

Posted by: Chris | December 18, 2008 11:35 PM

"Banana". :-\

Hey, I was thinking outside the box... :-O

Posted by: minusRusty | December 19, 2008 1:59 AM

Dangit that second trick should have been limited to N
:)

Posted by: Who Cares | December 19, 2008 6:35 AM

1) I thought of eggplant. Which is a vegetable (in culinary terms anyway) that I like to eat but am allergic to. Perhaps having said number "8" in my head, eggplant was similar sounding. Or something.

2) I baffled most of my co-workers (engineers and techies) with this one a few years back, but the one guy who was a mathematician saw through it immediately (and then proceeded to explain it to everyone else).

Posted by: Theo Bromine | December 19, 2008 8:47 AM

Cabbage...

Posted by: Aaron Luchko | December 19, 2008 10:16 AM

potato(e) :)

Posted by: tony | December 19, 2008 3:42 PM

Squash.

Posted by: John Moeller | December 19, 2008 6:23 PM