Maybe a human front half (including the legs) and horse rear half? It would seriously suck to run with 2 human legs and 2 horse legs.

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[–] 27 points 5 months ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    seriously, no one has answered "a quarter horse" yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Quarter_Horse

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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    1 centaur = 1/2 human + 1/2 horse

    1/2 human + 1/2 centaur = 3/4 human + 1/4 horse.

    Yay math.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    look at trump. hes bascially a frontaur.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    3/4 Horse, 1/4 man.

    Or 3/4 man, 1/4 horse.

    Instead of the usual 50-50 split.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    0.5c = 0.25m + 0.25h and you don't need to normalize.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Only legs. Two human legs on bottom and then two horse legs on top, nothing else. The monstrosity still walks upright.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    2 human legs but the back ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Something like this? I imagine the horse part is the dominant genes

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Damn, I wish I had an algorithm to tell me whether 75 and 25 are even or odd, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    this halfling would have the top of centaur and the buttom of a human

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    I'm gonna go with Jesus with hooves

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Centaur but on backlegs is also human atop

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    his name is BoJack Horseman

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    A human with a giant horse "head"

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago
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    Like a 1/4 centaur, so maybe walking upright on horsey hind legs with a human torso and head?

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    It would be a centaur with a horse's head.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    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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