• blackbrook@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    That doesn’t work anyway, since based on wheat variety, growing season, and grinding method, different flours have different information density.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      They have an international prototype sack of flour in an old missile silo in Kansas. Ultimately that’s what all the measurements are relative to

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        2 days ago

        Computational biochemists are working with a crack team of mathematicians as we speak to develop an alternative standard which does not need a reference mass

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      Sounds like the culinary world would benefit from having a measurement system that accounts for these factors.