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After some of my own math, most of my hair is around 13 months while my bangs are 10 (remeber my trim?). Anyway, I'm guessing that by March I'll be at 18 months. It would be February but I'm getting a 1/2 inch taken off this weekend, and I'm not bummed out about it.
So I was just wondering how many people here have actually did some math to figure out how long your hair will be by a certain date?
My hair grows at an unpredictable rate, by that I mean some months it grows an inch, and other months more like 0.85-0.90 of an inch. So the math wouldn't work for me, but sometimes, in my calendar, I write what length I'd like to have, within reason, for a certain date (e.g 6 months, one year mark, 18 month mark)and hope to fulfill that length by the time that date comes around. I'm quite sad, aren't I!
I'm quite sad, aren't I!
Go take a look at Absalom's response and see that there's more to your theory than you think!
Hi Tonez. It can be difficult to predict how long your hair will be by a certain date once it gets really long. You have to factor in loss due to shedding and breakage. If you have 100,000 hairs on your head and your hair grows 1/2 inch per month that is 50,000 inches of new hair per month. But what if your hair is 24 inches long and you lose 50 hairs per day which is 1500 hairs per month? Although you are growing 50,000 inches of hair per month you would be losing 36,000 inches per month. At this rate 72% goes to loss and only 28% goes to growth. At this length your hair will get longer at a rate of 0.28 x 1/2 inch or only 0.14 inches per month. If you divide 50,000 by 1500 you will find that you would have a terminal length of 33.3 inches. THESE ARE AVERAGE VALUES FOR AVERAGE HAIR. If your hair growth rate and hair count is higher and your shed rate is lower your terminal length could be 6 feet. If you have a high shed rate and a low hair count and slow growth your terminal length could be only 1 foot. It is possible to predict how long your hair will get from 3 factors: hair count, growth rate, and loss rate. Absalom
The future doesn't look too bright for me then. I lose quite alot I think (dunno what to compare it to), and my hair strands aren't exactly fighting for space up there. I've already experienced abit of trouble with my left bang; one day it'd go behind my ear, another it wouldn't. That went on for quite a while but now it seems to be permanently long enough.
Matt
Can you imagine having your calculations below put into a math problem at school?
YIKES!
Seeing what you wrote makes me realize why I never liked or did well in math. No wonder I became an English teacher instead of a math teacher.
I can't believe you actually went through all of that! So you've just explained the triginometry of hair.
ok if your hair grows half an inch per month,
then its growing approximately 0.0167 inches per day. in a week it grows a little over 1/10 of an inch.
