VirGinny83
Recursive Cookie Baking Rule:

Good Rule. I think I will bake cookies today. 

themadeshop:

“Always take them out of the oven before you think they’re done.”

This was my Dad’s rule for baking cookies, and I have a very clear memory of first ‘discovering’ recursion at the tender age of about 8 or so and then trying to explain to him that his rule was actually logically impossible to follow. That the rule implied a new definition of ‘done’ each time you applied it, and therefore you had to reapply it and take them out a bit earlier, which is of course a new definition of ‘done’ and so you must re-apply the rule, ad infinitum.

He just told me that if you don’t follow the rule then you’ll burn the cookies.

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    My family has this Cookie-Baking Rule
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    number 2: do not..DO NOT mix up bakeing powder...bakeing soda….i may
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    will bake cookies today.
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