The existing formula assumes that the horse is a cylinder of flesh. To make it more accurate, you would want to do the estimates for the head and legs separately. I'm pretty sure you could make a separate calculation based on girth for the additive head and legs (the head and legs would have a higher percentage bone mass) and get within 10%.
The only use for these measurements that comes to mind is possibly loading a horse trailer and you need to make sure you're within limits but don't need to be overly precise. Ok, now what about the load capacity of an African swallow ... Mark On Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 10:05:01 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Ciao Mark S. > > Small side footnote ... > > I notice that horse calculations tack on 50lbs. > > > Its true that in guesstimating horse weight from tape measures in actual > stables there is a kind of rule-of-thumb to "add on a few pounds" the > larger and older the horse is. The downside is that if you make that > rule-of-thumb into a codification in computer calculations its starts > drifting off from guesstimate to stab-in-the-dark. I don't think that > formula would well for tiny Shetland Ponies, for instance. But mostly its > in the ballpark. > > Josiah > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/080e8b5c-5da9-4a5a-99ad-9a0d8547cd0e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
