Ripe pineapple and delicious pork

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 07:35 in Mathematics & Economics

When buying a pineapple, the customer often stands helplessly in front of the supermarket shelf - which one is already ripe? If the fruit is eaten immediately it's often still not sweet enough, if it's left too long it has rotten patches. Laboratory tests are too slow and too costly to provide the answers...

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