My recollection was that I had heard this as having become popular in Europe well before your July blog post, so it may have had many fathers, and indeed, commentors on your blog report also having done it. However, you may indeed have been the indirect source, as my memory is dim as to who told me.

I called it European because I have not seen people be very warm to it when suggested in the USA, and heard reports of greater warmth in Europe.

Of course the term bistromathics is well understood in geek circles, but I am not sure whether it’s good for the name or not, because as Adams defined it, bistromathics was based on the fact that you could never get the numbers to work out right on a bistro bill.