Distribution of bindis on a bathroom wall form a bell-shaped curve with normal but bimodal distribution. The value of the first bindi on x axis gives the height of the person to which the bindis belong! A line drawn from the end of the first curve to the peak value forms the angle A with the axis. This corroborates with leaning forward towards the wall mirror. Angle A is inversely proportional to the health of the spine (h) and to cleanliness of the wash basin (c) given by
Sin A=k/hc where k is a constant
The second curve can be used to calculate the height of the toilet seat after calculating height of the person from first curve.
‘Raw’ data is given below:
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I grew up in a Hindu household with no girl and my mother was the only lady in the house. After I got married, I started noticing bindis on the bathroom wall. My mother had never used a sticker bindi as she used to put kumkum for the purpose. So I understood that it was my wife’s creation. Gradually, the canvas started to grow as the number of bindis on the wall increased. One day I asked my wife that why would she stick the used bindi on the wall, rather than discarding it. She told me me that since a bindi is like an amulet or a fetish, that is worn not for identification of a married Hindu woman or for aesthetics or fashion statement only, but also for good fortune, it can not be thrown away in a dustbin. We all know that there are various cultural practices and interpretations of how and why women, even men, wear a bindi on their forehead. Since I found the subject of bindi on forehead to be very deep for me to decipher, I did not venture into it. I ventured to explore only the bindis on the bathroom wall!!
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