fuzzy logic rice cooker

While I was looking for out this well-acclaimed Zojirushi Rice Cookers, which are said to be the game leader in the market and industry, I was able to encounter Fuzzy Logic.

As I read more about it, all I can say is that there really is a lot fuzzy-ness in it, but only someone with a great brand can pull off such a funny name. Well, that's an opinion surely where the unlikely naming of brand is interested, but the rest of product facts can fully make up to the professionalism image.

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look at a heap of sand. Remove a grain from it. Is it nonetheless a heap? Keep on removing grains from it, till what point it's a heap and exactly at what point it ceases to be a heap? Exactly which grain changes it from heap to non-heap? This is called Sorites Paradox.

If a person starts plucking hair from his head, the person is not bald after plucking first hair, nor after plucking second hair. Then exactly when we are able to say that person is starting to get bald?

Introduction to fuzzy logic

What does fuzzy logic means?

Simply, fuzzy logic is a method for processing ambiguous variables which can't be described precisely with numbers, such as height (i.e: is that man tall or short?), slow, noisy, etc. In fuzzy logic, this variables represented as a set which its elements are crisp values and satisfy a function. We call this function as membership function.

On the other hand, how does fuzzy logic works?