A squared + B squared = boobs?

Researchers at Cambridge probably jerk off a bunch too.

(ass + boobs)² = ass² + 2 · ass · boobs + boobs²

I'm more of a legs man myself...

Like I needed math to know jessica alba is hot.

What an elaborate excuse to ogle at sexy spreads. Kudos Cambridge, I now have inspiration to view adult content in the view of the public.

This is the first time I've been excited about math in years.

We giving time to scientists from a country that still wastes money on a monarchy? Granted a figure-head monarchy but still... and now this?

I really don't think we need a bunch bunch of mathematicians to tell us what makes a women beautiful of not. Though for finding the perfect and sexiest of all walks and what women have the correct genetics to pull it off, job well-done.

The Learning Channel did a show about this about a year ago. The same scientists also came up with this transparent mask/film that you place over photos, and "beautiful" peoples faces line up exactly with the mask, basically suggesting that their faces are more geometrically symmetrical.

I love math...34-24-36

It's good to know that we finally have proof for the theorem, "Figures don't lie. But Liars figure."

@Trance-Addict: No kidding!! Reminds me of a quote fr/ Red Planet: "This is it. That moment they told us in high school where one day, algebra would save our lives."

I would like to be the first to volunteer to stick Jessica Alba down my pants...

Hey baby, I wish I were a derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves. You've got more curves than a triple integral.

I wish I was your problem set, because then I'd be really hard, and you'd be doing me on the desk.

It's good to know that these guys can now precisely quantify just how out of their league a particular babe is.

Please, they just changed the ratio to 25 inch waste:36 inch hips so they didn't sound like The Commodores:

"36", 24", 36"....WHAT A WINNING HAND!"

See...Lionel Richie didn't need any math, and he was almost right on target.

Uh, I've known this for a long, long time.

And it brings me great pleasure to know that my wife's ratio is .71 (she just needs to shed that .5inch from her waist. Fatty.)

So, is that 0.7 based on circumference? Forgive me, but I don't normally ask for a girls measurements...

Best quote: "The Jessica Alba sashay beat off competition..."

Giz I can't decide if I love you or hate you. You post these pics, which I love. I spend so much time at work oogling I'll probably get fired one day. I can't tell you to stop, but I can't tell you to not stop! Oh well... Keep up the good work!

And they needed math to figure this out?
Those researchers must be one big bunch of nerd loosers.

Aside from the pictures above showing an extraordinary example of our female gene pool, I my eyes, all girls are beautiful.

I guess that is why diodes are so sexy.

All we need is to turn it into a sport. Where hot women walk and a bunch of random people sit and score it. Just replace figureskating in the olympics and I'll watch that!

I'm a mathematician (that's kinda like a mathemetician), and I developed a system for female hotness that I think Jason Chen would really appreciate. I put a protractor down my pants, and measure the 'Angle of Salute' (Measured from the leg, it ranges from 0 (Bea Arthur with bed head) to 180 (usually requires multiple women and whipped cream)). You can also use the 'Degrees from Vertical' measurement (the smaller the better). Here's an easy to remember equation...

Angle of Salute = 180 - Degrees from Vertical

Oddly enough, Jessica Alba's Angle of Salute is 179.3, which means that the Degrees from Vertical is 0.7. Hmmm. Whether you use my method or Cambridge's method, Jessica Alba is a .7. Math-tastic!

@David Flores: Kudos, David, kudos for putting it so well:

'It's good to know that these guys can quantify precisely just how out of their league they are...'

@GreatDivide: i believe this is the first time in Gizmodo commenting history that someone has referenced a Commodores song.

Looks like the CRS (chick rating system) just got a bit more objective...

Cambridge research pipeline:
breast: height ratio
inseam: height ratio
lip volume: facial surface area ratio

using these calculations, the girls of The Sims/Second life/etc. should be getting a LOT hotter....

No body needs math to understand if a girl is hot. What is needed is the math to figure out how to GET the hot girls. It think the variables would be ; bank account, sence of humor( mostly about being wanted for you money and not your johnson), and looks and or long johnson.

I wish my math classes were this astonishing.

not to hate on giz, because i love you guys, but

a) no gadgets :( (unless boobs can qualify as "gadgets," then I'm all set!)

b) People have known this for years, it's not really new. It's just one of those things that never gets any attention until some journalist finds out about it and thinks its cool enough to write an article about this new thing he's discovered, despite the fact that its been around for around for decades.

Still, lovin the pics!

I couldn't get past the fifth paragraph of the article, which begins, "The Jessica Alba sashay beat off competition..." Wait a sec. There's a competition for this activity?

I thought it was beer that made women beautiful.

if this is the kind of stuff mathmeticians do... i wanna become a mathmetician!

I dont need a ruler and a calculator - I only need one device to tell me who is hot and that is my twig and dingleberries.

@ntrgc89: I've always considered boobs as "gadgets."

And as long as the size of those boobs are to the power of "C" or greater, I'm a happy man.

What's up with Sophia Loren in that picture? Was it taken just after a 3-week pizza-fest? I don't recall seeing pictures of her with all that fat around the middle. Ugh.

But on the other hand, Alessandra Ambrosio, wow. That's perfect.

This from the guys who can't get a computer to read the squiggly images that ticketmaster puts up. (That was an incredibly informative linear algebra does everything CS class)

Where do I sign up for the grant that pays me for making up a stupid equation c = a/b that says hourglass figure = sexy woman. Hell they could have at least used a non-linear function. I guess I should give them credit for it being a three dimensional function. WTF.

Reminder that lots of model photos get manipulated to achieve an aesthetic ratio (such as Miss Ambrosio), I'd need to meet them in real life to make a decision.

...And old Hef is just laughing, saying "Wrong line of work there, boys. The only math heads around here are accountants."

My favorite part of this whole thing is that you know someone was just awarded a Ph.D. for this. Ground-breaking work, boys!

I definitely need to be more "creative" as I brainstorm my diss. topic.

I <3 Jessica Alba. Think she'll marry me? :x

Gee, I'm not a scientist, but I conducted my own semi-scientific study and also reached the conclusion that Jessica Alba and Allesandra Ambrosio were the hottest human females alive. My study consisted of taking notes every time just looking at a picture of a chick gave me a boner. It came down to Alba, Ambrosio and Bea Arthur as the only three autmoatic pants-tighteners. Go figure.

Having a symmetrical face helps too. I think their ratio is just a tad off though - at least according to Da Vinci, the perfect human form carries the proportions of the Golden Section (1:1.618)[www.mathematicianspictures.com]

So I guess the Cambridge dorks have a thing for the extra-curvy ones.

This lady has the ratio down pat:
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Like I need math to figure out that boobies = good

and @Hvedhrungr: to quote Jerry Seinfeld, "Leg man, why would I be a leg man? I HAVE legs."

@rublind: I'm positive of it.

They may have figured out white beauty. What about the rest of the world? Is this cultural? Is white beauty the only one that matters? I think trying to mathematically quantify beauty is an exercise in the ridiculous at best and one in eugenics at worst.

"Women with a 0.7 WHR are usually rated as more attractive by men from European cultures."

Does this mean Americans prefer the pretty 'n plump ratio?

@uptown: please dont ever do that again! omg wtf and any other accronym I have missed insert here ______________________________!!!

There was a song in spanish that said something about this simpler: "She has a body like a cocacola bottle", which by the way was true then, when cocacola bottles where made from glass (i don't know if plastics remain so).

1.812 is sexy. the more 1.812 you have, the sexier you are.

@Bloody_Sorcerer: and when i say 1.812 i really mean 1.618.

I think Marilyn Monroe had way more than that ratio, and she puts all of those girls to shame. Curves FTW.

Wow, I read about this like four years ago. Great to keep up on late-breaking news Gizmodo.

@ SPUDMILLS:
Unlike Jessica Alba, Sophia Loren didn't have the benefit of Photoshop to clear up the fluffy mid-section.

Having those curves, I can tell you with absolute certainly that my research shows that said bust-waist-hip ratios will reduce a mathematicians (or any other thinking mans) IQ greatly. (Useful way to level the playing field so I can figure out WTF they are talking about.)

I don't come to Gizmodo for transparent appeals to sex-starved losers. I come here for actual gadget news. Although if I see another one of these stupid posts that are just an excuse to boost pageviews with Maxim photoshoots, I don't think I will come here for anything.

Seriously, guys-there are plenty of places for this kind of content. I don't want to have to worry about getting caught looking at the Gizmodo feed at work, but it seems like you're going out of your way to include racy photos and profanity. I get that you make your money off of increased readership, and this kind of stuff increases your readership, but I think it's doing so at the expense of your credibility as a new source. I like irreverence as much as the next guy, and I appreciate that you write with a sense of humor, but it would be nice if you'd try to just apply that attitude to actual gadget/tech news.

meh. if you're worried about getting caught looking at giz while you're working, what does it matter what the posts are about? if you're gonna get in trouble, you shouldn't be looking. makes perfect sense to me.

hell, the only nipples you can see for certain are on the venus. and they're stone... who cares if it's a piece about jessica alba or a 103-inch hdtv- i'm never gonna have either in my living room. (or in my pants, for that matter.)

I thought this site was about "gadget news." I've let a lot of stuff slide, but this is not news about gadgets nor is it news. The "point 7 ratio" has been around for years, and, if memory serves has been disproven. What has been found is that the hip-waist ratio can be used as a basis of attractiveness in most cultures but that the actual ratio attractive to a particular cultur varies.

you guys are a bunch of pigs! Lets devise a system that measures how useless and puny your penises are and then we'll talk. Women are not here for your pleasure, were here to teach you men a thing or two about how to be HUMAN! have a nice quiet evening whipping off in the bathroom to Tomb Raider comics while ma and pa bang on the door to hurry it up. Lame MFs
oh and btw I've got a pretty good idea why you "approve" commments because Im probably about the millionth woman who written a comment about how lame you all are.

They did that study on ?Nova? -I think. -And even among tribal men in either central america or papua new guinea, who had never seen a magazine or a tv, the worldwide favorite ratio was still 0.7 w/h. -It's absolutely cross-cultural.

@Collins1: You have a social life? :D