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Dear Cecil,

Sub: SEEKING FORMULA TO DETERMINE SAFE AREAS FOR LOCATING “TOILET”.
Ref: Valuable archive at "WWW.GEOMANCY.NET".

It is generally said as a rule-set (taboo) in Internal Forms Feng Shui, that Toilet [more accurately toilet bowl] should not be located in cases such as (1) Center of an apartment/house; (2) Near the main door entrance [i.e, in the foyer area] of an apartment/house and (3) Above the bedroom [perhaps the bed] or above the kitchen [perhaps the stove/oven] or above the main door entrance.
In all these cases, is there a mathematical formula, to measure, the safe distance area, where the toilet [or toilet bowl] can be located, considering a layout of an apartment or house varies from “small’ to “big” to “very big”, depending on the factors such as size of rooms, number of rooms etc ?

For Example: If we can consider a circle [with radius “r”] as the small area with the toilet bowl at center “o”, then the above illustrated cases of (1), (2), (3), should not be within the area of the small circle with radius “r”, with the toilet bowl at “o”. In this case, how can we define “r”, if “r”=A*(R), wherein A is the constant factor, we need to know [???, if you can help us], and “R” is the radius of the circle imposed on a rectangular[or square, etc] layout of the apartment of the house. With the consideration “D” (Diameter)= 2 *R.
And Assumption[Pythagoras Theory]:- If an approximate rectangle of fit is imposed on the apartment/house layout, with say, “L” – Length; “B”- Breadth; or “D” – Diagonal (or Diameter of the circle of fit on the layout) =Square root of {( L to the power of 2) + (B to the power of 2)}.


Your assistance in indicating what should be the constant factor “A” [i.e A=0.10 or 0.15 or 0.20 or ??? etc], will be very helpful. Because, from this “A”, one can calculate “r”, and can avoid placing location cases such as (1) or (2) or (3) within the taboo circle areas with radius “r”, from the toilet bowl location point “o”.

“MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE”.

Janna