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>I’m 6 foot 1, or 73 inches tall. My waist is 60 inches around. I’m nearly a sphere.

That sounds like a math error. Height would be diameter. Inches around waist would be circumference. He needs to be pi times wider to be a sphere (plus more to make up the 60 vs 73).

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To be nitpicky, I assume he's just talking about his torso. The head and legs aren't part of the sphere.

Hmm, the way the 3 sentences were combined, it seemed to me the 3rd was a conclusion derived from the first 2. If he was talking about his torso, no such conclusion can be derived from the first 2 sentences.

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