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There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little squares! Just tear the bread-it's easier and more fun, and most important, the croutons taste better because they have lots of raggedy edges that get crisp, and even slightly burnt.
Six Seasons
Joshua McFadden
Project-Specific Pattern Languages
Efficiency is not the problem (often what people try to solve with pattern languages) - correctly finding a form that fits the context is the real problem.
Pattern languages should be helpful in passing knowledge or preventing a re-solve of a solved problem.
Christopher Alexander: A Primer
Ryan Singer
Imagine we want to compute the square root of a number n. The basic idea of [*Heron’s method*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots#Heron's_method), named after the mathematician and engineer, Heron of Alexandria, is to find a number g that is close to and to then average that with the number n/g, which corrects for the fact that g either over- or underestimates .
Estimating Square Roots in Your Head
Gregory Gundersen
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