@kat apply the principles of motivic cohomology to making just the right amount of sauce to keep the dish slightly moist and adequately flavourful #practicalmathematics

For those interested in practical maths in the Early Modern Period, the author has sent me a link to his really interesting PhD thesis on the history of gauging
Gauging a State: Excise Taxation, Practical Mathematics, and Cask Measuring in Seventeenth Century England
#practicalmathematics #gauging
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/342104