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.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 65d

I'm thinking you would have human arms and run upright on two horsey hind legs.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d

you land on your front human legs shattering your ankles and breaking your feet and legs

I can’t imagine we've got more fragile legs than horses

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 65d (9 replies)

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.

mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d (5 replies)

Isn't that just a satyr?

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 65d (1 reply)

With a Satyr, the whole lower half from the waist down is a goat.

mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d

Crap, you're right. That's what I get for replying based on visual memory and not confirming it first. Thanks.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 65d

I think satyrs are goat/humans and centaurs are horse/humans, but that's probably racist somehow.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 64d

satyr are goat human hybrid, or demon/lucifer/angel form.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 0 pts · 65d

https://mysteryinhistory.com/half-man-half-goat-in-greek-mythology/

qualia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d (2 replies)

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.

sneezycat@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 64d (1 reply)

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

qualia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d

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.

Geldaran@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 64d

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

solrize@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 64d

1 centaur = 1/2 human + 1/2 horse

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

Yay math.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 65d (6 replies)

3/4 Horse, 1/4 man.

Or 3/4 man, 1/4 horse.

Instead of the usual 50-50 split.

GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 65d

My wife says I’m 1/4 horse.

Apparently I’m a horse’s ass.

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 65d (3 replies)

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.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d (1 reply)

Half man, half bear, half pig.

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 65d

No, clearly it's half man, half bear-pig!

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 65d

Body is 1/2, head is the other 1/2. 🤷‍♂️

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 65d

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.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 64d

look at trump. hes bascially a frontaur.

Grimy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 65d

2 human legs but the back ones.

Mesophar@pawb.social · 2 pts · 65d

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

BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 65d

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

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 64d

I'm gonna go with Jesus with hooves

thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 65d

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

adarza@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 65d

his name is BoJack Horseman

mecen@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 64d

Centaur but on backlegs is also human atop

Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 65d

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HorsegiirL

AstroLightz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 65d (4 replies)

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.

Mesa@programming.dev · 1 pts · 64d (3 replies)

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

bstix@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 64d (2 replies)

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

Mesa@programming.dev · 1 pts · 64d (1 reply)

(I was being facetious and was referring to the joke of making highly complicated evenOrOdd functions)

bstix@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 64d

I just want people to think.

I asked Google about it and it clearly didn't understand what half a centaur is, but it did confirm that it is an even number.

Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 65d

A human with a giant horse "head"

HubertManne@piefed.social · 0 pts · 65d

a satyr?

Maeve@kbin.earth · 0 pts · 65d

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-a-centaur/

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 65d

Like a 1/4 centaur, so maybe walking upright on horsey hind legs with a human torso and head?

SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 0 pts · 65d

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

timewarp@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 65d

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.