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A Cattle Calculator |
You go to the county fair, spot a healthy heifer and want to buy it; but the seller demands too much, claiming the animal to weigh more than your trained eye estimates. What to do? You don’t go around with a folding cattle scale, do you? |
The formula embodied in this calculator is
Weight = 3.35 x Length x Girth squared where the linear measurements are in feet and the weight is in pounds. |
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Exhibit provenance: Got it at an auction at the annual meeting of the Oughtred Society. More info: |
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