Should intake be more than output?

For a while I have been wondering how to use my current set up to best effect, and what to do when the output cannot be matched. I can only afford two reels, but am going to play with a full four. So I wonder if I should match my intake of cards to the number of possible turns, or if it is more efficient to use a fixed number of cards per turn?

I use a deck with eight suits, two jokers, twelve face cards, ten numeral cards and eight court cards. That should be a fair spread for the game. But in order to have some control over the number of cards you are receiving, and to give your opponents a rough idea of where you are in the game, you have to make sure that you use your whole hand. By setting it so that a player receives nine cards per round you will not know what cards you are receiving until after the round has started. You could also have your hand made with a larger spread of cards (say 20 instead of 12) or perhaps you would rather have a smaller spread with fewer cards.

This does require that you can see the cards your opponent is receiving, and if your opponent is using an electronic board you must be able to distinguish between the various colors of cards. It is good if you can play cards directly from your hand onto the table. If that is not possible it is important to get used to the feel of the game. To some extent you have to get used to it because you need to play cards against your opponents strategy and style. You will be able to make many mistakes if you do not learn how they play.

You could arrange your cards so that all twelve face cards are one side of the pack (which would make it easier to identify them), and then three cards on the other side. If you use two decks it is possible to have six and six, or a higher spread. But then you need to have one of the decks as a reserve, which you can use when you have no cards left. You can play it off against your opponent, or against yourself. You could also play the game out of turn, or you could let your opponent pick which deck they want to use.

In the end it would depend on what you are looking to achieve. If you want a competitive game then you need to play according to the rules.

Should your intake and output be equal?

If the amount of water you drink and the amount of water your body loses is equal, then your body would be able to stay hydrated. If your intake and output are not equal, then your body needs to drink more water. If your intake and output are greater than equal, you're losing more water than your body needs, so your body needs to drink more water. If your intake and output are less than equal, then you need to drink less water.

What is a normal fluid intake and output?

The total fluid intake is the amount of water (ie the volume) plus all the beverages (ie all fluid in bottles and cans). The total fluid output is the urine plus the feces, plus any additional fluids (not measured) that leave the body, such as sweating, salivating, etc. The total urine output should not be confused with the daily average urine output, which is usually about 2 liter per day. The "normal" is about 1 liter per hour for the normal person, and about 2 liters per day for a normal person. But these are general guidelines. We can't make any claims without taking into account several other factors. (such as the size of your kidney, whether you are a male or female, or whether you are dehydrated.)
Here is an example from another answer I made to another question. It shows the amount of urine output for me as an adult and for a child.

The amount of water intake is the same in both cases, but the amount of water output is higher for me as an adult, because I am older.

Should fluid intake be the same as fluid output?

I was asked the question: "If you are drinking lots of fluid, why are you peeing it out?" My answer: "Because you can't get enough fluids in to be able to excrete more than that." Well, that is not correct! The opposite of "too much fluid" is not "too little", it's "too little". So if you are only drinking half of the recommended amount and sweating 100 ml of sweat/hour (and you should because it is important to replace that), then your body is wasting about 5 ml/hour. If the amount of fluid you are drinking is the same as the amount of fluid you are losing, then it's fine. (At least I believe that's what it comes down to.)

I don't know if anyone else has had a professor (I didn't) or an advisor who just asked a question like that and said "I don't know why I'm asking such a stupid question." What if there was a reason they were asking it? How do we know that there isn't? To me, the real question is, how does your professor know? Asking a student (or whoever is in charge of class) how they figured this out seems reasonable, but a professor asks the question because, as we all know, the professor knows better. Because they wrote the book. They are the expert.

There may be legitimate reasons for asking that question, but I suspect that there is something fishy going on here, and maybe the professor isn't asking it out of pure ignorance. Here's a thought experiment. Suppose that someone really does have some reason to suspect that the class is cheating, for instance a note has been slipped into an exam which the students claim they did not have time to make, or a note has been inserted into the textbook by someone who has read it and can copy it out perfectly.

Suppose also that the professor thinks there is enough evidence that someone must be cheating, but he can't get a hold of the cheating student or even the notes from the cheating student's classmate who has them. He tells the students that, if they fail the exam, he will consider it cheating. This is the only explanation he can think of. But he knows that it is unlikely.