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5 Sep 2024 13:12:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Random hat size question  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 3 Jul 2009 08:40:40
Message: <4a4dfc48@news.povray.org>
Kevin Wampler wrote:
> For entirely boring reasons, I was looking at the table of hat size 
> conversions appropriately located at http://hatsizes.com/
> 
> I used a simple regression to reverse engineer the equation from this 
> table, and it seems to be:
> 
> US_size = circumference_inches / pi + 0.037
> 
> So, the division by pi makes sense to me, but does anyone have any idea 
> where the + 0.037 comes from?

Rounding error.

Regards,
John


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