Can't miss out on the slightest justification to post this.

Can't miss out on the slightest justification to post this.

seriously, no one has answered "a quarter horse" yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Quarter_Horse
1 centaur = 1/2 human + 1/2 horse
1/2 human + 1/2 centaur = 3/4 human + 1/4 horse.
Yay math.
It would seriously suck to run with 2 human legs and 2 horse legs.
Yeah I'm imagining rear horse legs, and Everytime you jump forward hard with the rear horsepower you land on your front human legs shattering your ankles and breaking your feet and legs with all that weight behind you. Bummer. Walk slow I guess.
3/4 Horse, 1/4 man.
Or 3/4 man, 1/4 horse.
Instead of the usual 50-50 split.
But it isn't 50/50. It's a whole horse with half a man where his neck and head should be. So it's more like 1 1/4 creatures.
The second one, because if a centaur is already half horse and half human, a half-human half-centaur would be 3/4 human and 1/4 horse.
So instead of half human and half horse, it's 3/4 human 1/4 horse. I'm going with human except the two legs are horse legs.
Isn't that just a satyr?
If c = centaur, h = horse, m = man
c = 0.5h + 0.5m
0.5c + 0.5m = 0.5h + 0.5m + 0.5m = 0.5h + 1m
Normalizing we get (0.5h + 1m)(2/3) = (1/3)h + (2/3)m
The horse aspects are getting more diluted by the extra human genes (or parts). As others have observed I'm also imagining a centaur whose front legs are human, but has a wicked rear horse kick.
0.5c = 0.25m + 0.25h and you don't need to normalize.
There's always a normalization step unless two animals go in and two come out. In sexual reproduction it's meiosis for example. In your example you're just pre-normalizing. I may still be wrong about the (2/3):(1/3) ratio though.
Edit: If centaurs reproduced sexually with humans though they’d have 50% centaur offspring and 50% fully human. That’s assuming half their diploid chromosome count comes from each species and they can somehow compatibly align. Lulz.
Only legs. Two human legs on bottom and then two horse legs on top, nothing else. The monstrosity still walks upright.
Something like this? I imagine the horse part is the dominant genes
Math can help solve this:
m = 0.5 # human
h = 0.5 # horse
C = m + h # Centaur
So Centaur is 50% human, 50% horse. Half human, half Centaur would be:
# Expand
C / 2 + m
m + h / 2 + m
# Combine
(m + h / 2) + (2m / 2)
3m + h / 2
# Solve
3(0.5)[m] + 0.5[h] / 2
1.5[m] + 0.5[h] / 2
0.75[m] + 0.25[h]
Which is 0.75 human, 0.25 horse
Therefore, this hybrid is 75% human, 25% horse
To answer your question: This would probably be a human with a horse tail, and 2 horse legs.
Damn, I wish I had an algorithm to tell me whether 75 and 25 are even or odd, though.
X Mod 2
It returns true if X is odd and false if X is even.
A more computational efficient method would be to use: AND 00000001
(I was being facetious and was referring to the joke of making highly complicated evenOrOdd functions)
Like a 1/4 centaur, so maybe walking upright on horsey hind legs with a human torso and head?
Ask Musk. Word is he fucked a horse and made a centaur using a cattle prod to give it that magic spark. That is how he came up with the name Tesla.
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