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hpcc.info - hugh - 12-16-2014 07:47 PM HPCC in London, have a new (and old) technology forum. http://hpcc.info RE: hpcc.info - Thomas Klemm - 12-16-2014 11:12 PM My favorite program so far: Pastry Making in HPLUA Programs Quote:-- this falls slightly shortThis made me chuckle. Throwing all that math at a problem and then not using it. You could probably just as well return 2*h+b in baseCutDiameter. Now I wonder what kind of pastry you make. Kind regards Thomas RE: hpcc.info - hugh - 12-17-2014 08:36 AM I did try it. that's why i found it falls slightly short :-) Imagine you have a dish with a sloped side (the frustrum). The idea is to cut a circular piece of pastry to fit the base and the sides. However, the shape is not a circle when flattened and so a circular piece of pastry winds up (slightly) crumpled on the side slopes and thus "falls short" slightly. I think the 10% hack factor accommodates this. The code was an experiment to calculate the amount of pastry required to make a pie with an optional lid, and then calculate the amount of raw ingredients needed (ie flour, fat, etc.) :-) |