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You can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to km (europe.pub)
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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 months ago (6 children)

To go from km to mi I always leaned “multiply by 6 and move the decimal one to the left”. So 6km is ~3.6mi. Or 10km is just about 6mi.

[–] Scavenger8294@feddit.org 0 points 6 months ago

glad I did not learn conversion in school. Nobody uses miles where i live

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