This fortune I read today seems like a natural follow-up to my previous post:
This is the first numerical problem I ever did. It demonstrates the
power of computers:Enter lots of data on calorie & nutritive content of foods. Instruct
the thing to maximize a function describing nutritive content, with a
minimum level of each component, for fixed caloric content. The
results are that one should eat each day:1/2 chicken
1 egg
1 glass of skim milk
27 heads of lettuce.— Rev. Adrian Melott