SC - raingear (OT)
Luanne Cupp Bartholomew
luanne at bartholomew.com
Mon Jan 22 22:29:33 PST 2001
On 1/21/01 8:56 AM sca-cooks at ansteorra.org wrote:
>As often happens, i find myself reading a recipe sent to the list in
>which, instead of fractions, i'm seeing odd characters, such as
>omegas, infinity signs, as in an omega cup of chopped parsley.
...
>Folks, please use three key strokes instead of one and type fractions
>all the way out, such as 1/2 instead of a single key stroke that i'm
>seeing as an omega or an infinity sign or some other ...character.
I try to remember to simply put fractions into decimals, that is:
three quarter = .75
one half = .5
one quarter = .25
one eighth = .125
one third = .333
two third = .666
You have to stop and think an extra second, but there's no way those
numerics are going to get scrambled, 8-).
Chimene
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