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You can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to km (europe.pub)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/lifehacks@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Remember"? Do you also remember all the digits of π?

It's defined as F(0) = 0, F(1) = 1 and F(n) = F(n - 1) + F(n - 2). Which makes more sense than imperial units.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Or I could just do 1.6 km ≈ 1 mile whenever I need to convert from the standard that I use, Metric, to Imperial

Far far far simpler

Edit: I'm not American, I use sensible units, SI Metric

Edit edit: I do fully have dyscalcus, mostly only effects "scary" looking maths, so no, your suggestion doesn't help

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tbh, the last sentence was just a silly jab at the imperial units.

I was mostly just making fun of the fact that you implied the Fibonacci sequence can be memorized, when it is infinite. I'm not saying that referring to it is simpler than dividing/multiplying by a constant, no.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know from running that 5k is 3.1miles so I just go from there

[–] cheesyxpickle@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Same!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Which makes more sense than imperial units.

But you'd only need to do the conversion if you started with imperial units.