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To estimate your dog’s age in human years, you’re going to have to learn a bit more math

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July 11, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EDT
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To estimate your dog’s age in human years, multiply the dog’s age by seven, right? Wrong.

A more accurate conversion isn’t so easy to do in your head: Multiply the natural logarithm of the dog’s age by 16, then add 31. Researchers recently reported this new canine age formula online in Cell Systems.