ABSTRACT
Calculators free human beings from having to perform arithmetic computations by hand. Similarly, programming languages free humans from having to perform iterative computations by re-running chunks of code, or worse, copying-and-pasting a chunk of code many times, while changing just one or two things in each chunk. In every programming language that we can think of, there is a way to write a loop. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a common measure of a person's size, expressed as a ratio of their body's mass to the square of their height. An exhaustive approach to understanding the relationship between BMI and some of the other variables is complicated by the fact that there are 75 potential explanatory varibles for any model for BMI.
