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You can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to km (europe.pub)
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[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 1 points 1 month 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.