Hi,

I’ve found on Wikipedia the following formula to calculate the BMR estimation

We can read just after the formula:

According to this formula, the woman in the example above has a BMR of 1,204 kilocalories (5,040 kJ) per day.

But when I take their example of a 55-year-old woman weighing 130 pounds (59 kg) and 66 inches (170 cm)

and do ((10*55)+(6,25*170)-(5*55))-161 I get 1,217 and not 1,204

Am I doing something wrong ?

Thanks.

  • magiccupcake@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months ago

    Looks like the conservation to cm is written wrong in the wiki article.

    66 in is closer to 168 cm, putting that into the equation for h yields the expected 1204

    • parasocialite@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      That’s interesting. I was going to edit the wiki page to correct the error, but the wiki code in the article is: {convert66|in|cm} so their underlying converter is what’s producing that inaccurate value.

      • magiccupcake@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        Seems like it’s overly aggressive rounding.

        According to chatgpt you can specify to the zeroth decimal which makes it display 168

        {convert66|in|cm|0}