kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) (06/28/88)
In article <768@lakesys.UUCP> jason@lakesys.UUCP (Jason) writes: >If Barbie were blown up to human size, her measurements would be 39",21",33". >(For real!) OK, Assume Barbie is to be "ideally" (Whatever *that* means. I prefere about 5'2") 5'9", and the dall itself is 11", that makes the scale about 6.3 (meaning that 11"*6.3 is 69.3" or 5'9.3".). Now, all these measurements are 3" off from "ideal" (being 36-24-36). So, it's safe to assume that the *circumferance* of each measurement is off by about .48" (3"/6.3). But remember, that;'s circumferance, not diameter. The dieameter is C/PI, or about .15". Now, I'm not up on manufacturing processes in the toy industry of the 30's-40's and 50's, but to eyeball a doll to within 15/100th of an inch is pretty damn good. Of course, they probably did measure it, ut it's just a TOY! :-) OK, enough. Followups to /dev/null. Besides, I heard it was more along the line of 46-20-40. Sean Kamath -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@PSUVAX1.BITNET ARPA: reed!kamath@PSUVAX1.CS.PSU.EDU US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202-3126 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)