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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2077942, member: 19463&quot;]The other day I was making cornbread and poured batter into 12 muffin cups.&nbsp; I only own 12 cups so when I was finished pouring and had a little batter left, I added some to the ones that seemed underfilled making them, now, the ones that were overfilled.&nbsp; This is an example of &#039;al marco&#039; baking.&nbsp; I could have licked the bowl but management (my wife) would not have approved of my skimming bullion (I mean batter) and might have bitten my head off (mint officials may have severed heads in other manners).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Seriously, I get a kick out of the US mint giving weights of coins to three decimal places.&nbsp; Just try calibrating your .01g scale using 5.000g nickels and you will discover that many are good to a tenth not a thousanth.&nbsp; Considering the scales available to the ancients, I believe it is amazing just how close many of the coins are to the theoretical norm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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