8.29.2007

A Practical Use For Mathematics

A team of Cambridge mathematicians has recently used math to show that actress Jessica Alba has "the ultimate sexy strut." Apparently, it's because the ratio between her hips and her waist is close to 0.7, the sexy ratio, as it can now be called. I'm sure many of my readers will be surprised to find that mathematics can have such practical applications.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ya mean, my daily application of math isn't practical? ;)

Later!
Anna

Aaron said...

Well of course, in your job knowing how to convert from circumference to diameter (or was it the other way) can be quite important.