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How tall are you?

jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
edited 2012-09-28 23:20 in General Discussion
I'm taking a statistics class, and need some numbers. Asking for height seems to be harmless - i could be wrong.

So, if you don't mind saying, how tall are you in inches or centimeters ?
I'm 72" (inches) for example.

Thanks.
--Steve
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  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2012-09-09 16:48
    6 feet, 2 and one-half inches


    ...opps! Sorry, inches it is: 74 and 1/2 inches.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-09-09 16:48
    Well, as long as you're not asking how much we weigh ... :) I'm 75.5" tall.

    -Phil
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2012-09-09 16:53
    73
    (Can you trust the data from a self-selected survey?)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-09-09 16:55
    6 feet, zero inches
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2012-09-09 16:55
    I'm 5 ft, 10 in = 70 inches
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2012-09-09 16:55
    74" here. And apparently a message has to be at least ten characters long.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2012-09-09 17:01
    76 chiseled inches... Hey, I had to get to 10 characters somehow!!
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2012-09-09 17:18
    PJ Allen wrote: »
    73
    (Can you trust the data from a self-selected survey?)

    It's a survey of convenience.

    Thanks for all the responses so far. Need more data please.
  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,935
    edited 2012-09-09 17:25
    69" (I can pull off 70 when I stand up straight.....)
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,245
    edited 2012-09-09 17:29
    75 inches here.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2012-09-09 17:32
    PJ Allen wrote: »
    ...
    (Can you trust the data from a self-selected survey?)

    56 insipidly impecunious inches.... gotta curl out that Gaussian somehow.

    220px-Tennessee_Williams_NYWTS.jpg
  • JLockeJLocke Posts: 354
    edited 2012-09-09 17:48
    Count me in at a height of 71".
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2012-09-09 17:54
    I wonder if height is one of the more reliable (less likely to be lied about) statistics you can ask a group of people and get reliable results?

    Eye color?
    Hair Color?
    Weight? (haha!)
    Age? (could be gender dependent)
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2012-09-09 18:04
    73.5" - well I was but have started to slowly shrink :(
  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2012-09-09 18:11
    67.7 inches tall in your units of measurement (I had to measure myself upside down as I am in Australia).
  • Martin HodgeMartin Hodge Posts: 1,246
    edited 2012-09-09 18:16
    ...... 70 ......
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2012-09-09 18:43
    71 inches tall
  • BrowserBrowser Posts: 84
    edited 2012-09-09 19:01
    13", forepawz to earz, standing on all fourz.

    hope this helpz.

    -browz
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2012-09-09 19:06
    I'm 18 hands tall (74 inches)
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-09-09 19:07
    Cody,

    What's that in furlongs? :)

    -Phil
  • frank freedmanfrank freedman Posts: 1,983
    edited 2012-09-09 19:13
    18.03E9 A tall.
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2012-09-09 19:28
    70" down from 71" last time I was inclined to check, it seems. :(
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-09-09 19:38
    potatohead,

    Atten-HUT! That's better: 71". At ease ... and dismissed! :)

    -Sgt. PhiPi
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2012-09-09 20:11
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    What's that in furlongs? :)

    [code]
    18 hands = 0.00909090909 furlongs
    0.00909090909 furlongs = 1.8288
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2012-09-09 20:23
    I'm an honest 70" here.
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2012-09-09 20:46
    @Phil!

    I have been enlisted in the past. (Nat'l Guard) You may well be right about it!
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2012-09-09 21:03
    Hmm, all the shrinking mentioned makes me think to recheck my height.

    Great table @SRLM. Now I can fathom what a league is. :)

    There is a great unix/linux program called units. You can convert just about any type of relevant measure with it.
    $ units
2411 units, 71 prefixes, 33 nonlinear units


You have: hands
You want: leagues
    * 2.1043771e-05
    / 47520
You have: miles
You want: leagues
    * 0.33333333
    / 3
You have: miles
You want: fathoms
    * 880
    / 0.0011363636
You have: angstrom
You want: inches
    * 3.9370079e-09
    / 2.54e+08
    Coincidently David Betz has been working on an expression evaluator calculator demo for Propeller using GCC. I'm hoping he can make the program a full scientific calculator having sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, ln, and exp functions in Compressed Memory Model (CMM) mode.

    Using Frank's stated height and the conversion unit Inches*3.9370079e-09/Angsrom we get about 71".
    expr> 1.803e+10*3.9370079e-09
 --> 70.9843
expr>
    Converting from inches to Angstroms:
    expr> 71*2.54e+08
 --> 1.8034e+10
expr>
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2012-09-09 21:17
    71"
    xxxxxxxxxx
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2012-09-09 21:24
    I'm 5' 12"... er, 72". :-)
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2012-09-09 21:38
    Rather boring data so far except a few outliers.

    I hope folks from the Pacific, Asia, Middle-East, and Europe can contribute too.

    Thanks,
    --Steve
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