The
human body contains twenty-one bones. There are eleven ribs, sixteen vertebrae,
ten ligaments, two bony spines, and the myriad nerves and blood vessels that
run throughout the body. The human body, therefore, has more than one hundred
and twenty-five bones.
The second issue is the percentage of body weight that the bones
take up, and the strength of the body's skeleton. The final issue is the
density of the bones, and the ability of the bone to bear weight.
Once we establish the total weight, and the number of bones in
the body, we can calculate the body's volume, or the number of cubic centimetres
of air. We then can calculate the number of bones in the body.
The overall volume of the human body is greater than one
thousand. The average human being is about two hundred and thirty pounds. In
other words, the volume of the human body is a bit more than six thousand cubic
centimetres.
To come up with the ten-digit number, we multiply the volume by
six thousand. The result is the number of bones in the body. We then multiply
this number by the bone density to get the weight per square centimetre.
Lastly, we divide the number of bones in the body by the overall volume to get
the number of bones in the body.
To further assist us, let's look at the numbers for the bones in
the human body. The number of teeth is twelve. So the average adult has over
forty teeth, and each tooth is made up of a series of bone fragments.
Now we need to determine how many teeth are in each bone. The
average person has sixty teeth, each of which has five teeth. In other words,
the total number of teeth is fourteen.
The size of the teeth will determine the number of teeth to put
in each bone. In other words, if the human had a five inch long molar, and the
average person has fifty-five teeth, then the number of teeth would be five
plus five, to get fifteen teeth.
The number of bones in the human body is fourteen. The number of
teeth in each tooth determines the total number of bones in the human body. In
other words, there are fifteen times more bones in the human body than teeth.