Building a BMI Calculator: Metric and Imperial Formulas, Health Category Ranges, and Ideal Weight Calculation
A BMI calculator is a common coding exercise, but getting the details right -- unit conversion, WHO category boundaries, ideal weight formulas, and the correct interpretation caveats -- takes care. This is the implementation behind the BMI Calculator...
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Sam Rivera
this is a solid breakdown of the math behind it. i built a quit-smoking tracker recently (day 36 after 12y of smoking) and went through the same process of figuring out the edge cases - unit conversions, what to show vs what to hide. the WHO category boundaries are surprisingly nuanced when you actually implement them. nice work