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...never again be stupefied by tedious mathematical conversions! – by Ian Cook

As a young bachelor type, I occasionally find myself in the kitchen attempting to "cook." All the recipes seem to call for enough ingredients to feed six to eight people so I either have to solicit more diners or else convert all these arcane measurements down to single (or double if I'm feeling lucky) serving sizes.

Since math has never been my forte it goes without saying that I've got better things to do with my time than to stress-my-brain dividing cups. But wait! ...now there's Google to the rescue. These days, whenever I'm faced with those tedious conversions and brain twisting fractions, I google them!

If my recipe calls for 2¼ cups of rice to serve 8 hungry Hawaiians, I just punch the following query into Google to see what it takes to feed one skinny, but talented, haole boy...

See for yourself – click the Google Search button and voilà! ...you'll get that I only need about a quarter cup (actually .28125 cups to be exact) to make my two-scoops-rice.

And then there's the perplexity of forgetting how many X's make up a Y. Google helps me there, too.