SC - Re: Recipe Challenge

[Michael Macchione]

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> 
> This is also another example of a recipe that list ingredients and
> processes without  making it clear what processes apply to what
> ingredients. Mathematicians use parentheses. We have to guess, to some
> extent.


On a side note, as someone who has looked at both mathematics and cooking
in the middle ages, I would have to say that reading cooking is easier.
Most of the notation that mathematicians currently use is post-period.
IIRC parentheses are post 1600 in mathematics.  

Kael


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