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dsc

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1. the last paragraph you excerpted is wrong as a matter of math

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Mon Aug 28, 2017, 01:01 PM

Aug 2017

Yes you can prevent the problem or at least make it so rare as to be prevented. Surely there is a mean and standard deviation to the distribution of the lengths of the loafs of bread. A simple normal curve chart can take it from there. I have baked enough bread to know there is some variation but not so much that a difference of an inch in length can't be dealt with by making the loaves average 12.25 or so inches instead of 12.

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the last paragraph you excerpted is wrong as a matter of math dsc Aug 2017 #1

Agreed... but defacto7 Aug 2017 #3

I have never baked bread, but I suspect that variations can come from the diameter question everything Aug 2017 #4

Bravo on putting the breaks on frivolous lawsuits. defacto7 Aug 2017 #2