Davdi Silverrock wrote: > But that is exactly what a proper mathematical formula decribes! > >It might be a somewhat complicated mathematical formula (so that >perhaps different formulas would be used between different life >stages), or mathematical formulas with some factor that ranges between >certain values, but it should still all come down to math. > >When you have one set of values that goes between 0-100, and another >set of values that goes between 0-3000, and are told that there is a >certain relationship between those values (in this case, age), then a >mathematical formula, with certain accepted limitations, describes >that relationship. > >Assuming for the moment that that is the case, you could still create >a mathematical formula that took into account that amount of >variability. > Certainly, you can make a formula that describes ANYTHING... That's the whole point of math--to provide a symbolic representation for how things work. It's just that such a formula becomes less useful for a casual discussion when it goes beyond a certain point of complexity. Really, I wasn't saying you COULDN'T make a formula to describe the aging differences--just that it probably isn't terribly useful to do so. ;-) Majikjon