How wide is the average person? About 1/2 a block 1/2 a meter
This advice doesn't apply to Americans
Another useful tip: because the conversion rate of 1.609 miles to kilometers is so close to the golden ratio (1.618), you can use the Fibonacci sequence to estimate a conversion.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...
5 miles is about 8km, 8 miles is about 13km, etc
Welp....I'm just glad a younger audience is on lemmy.
Man, I'm 27 years old. Minecraft came out while I was in middleschool. I appreciate being called young... but I'm dealing with very adult feeling things at this stage in my life, like a balding scalp and dead parents.
Approximations in imperial units helps me a lot. A meter is a yard, a centimeter is about 3/8" (2.5 per inch), a millimeter is about 1/32" (half a 16th). Everyone knows how big two liters is from soda bottles. A kilogram is about two pounds. Room temperature is 20°C while 0 is freezing and 100 is boiling. 50°C is about 120°F.
If we need precision we can break out the measures, we just need to have a gut sense of this stuff.
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