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

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/lifehacks@sh.itjust.works

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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Thank you. So does that mean that the Fibonacci can help us because just like the miles-km algorithm it is closed form, so we can use it to compute a single number, and at the same time it gives us similarish results because of coincidence?

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