From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 16:38:22 MDT
> I find this subject fascinating. Just one question: how do I measure m2?
> Is that the surface area of my skin, and if so, how could I get a ballpark
> estimate without, like, putting duct tape all over myself, cutting it off
> and measuring its area?
BMI (Body Mass Index) is just your mass in kg divided by the square
of your height in meters--no need to measure surface area (which will
be more or less proportional to the square of your height anyway,
unless you are a fractal bush robot. "You know, when I got married my
Hausdorff dimension was over 3.8, but lately I've let myself go. I'm
barely at 3.3 these days.")
--Lee (1.9m, 102kg, BMI 28.3, dimension approx. 3.0)
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