Unusual foods have a strange tendency to land in my shopping cart, so yesterday I bought Pluot of the sort Brontosaur Eggs:

Touted “The fruit of this summer”, these are strange-looking (my shot with flash doesn’t do them justice, they have sick pale-greenish tones) plum-apricot hybrids, grown by Royal in Spain. As usual, I looked things up in wikipedia, a click away from  this oddity. What does it mean that something is 1/3 plum? 1/4 - fine, 3/16 - OK, but 1/3? Why is it not a multiple of some power of 1/2? Taken that one would have to combine them for quite an eternity. They must have started early, I reckon.

An aside:
In ground school, we were asked to construct 60 degrees using compasses and a ruler. I proposed: “let’s bisect 90°, bisect the second of 45° angles, then the first of 22.5°s, then the second, then the first and so on - I told the teacher that I think we would get to 60 after some number of steps. I was really down, when I learnt that the actual solution was so trivial. It was many years later, that I reminded myself of this and realized that theoretically my solution was fine. With my mid-ground school knowledge I could have got myself to the notion of infinity, just that I stopped at “some number”