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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Fun fact: you can convert from miles to kilometers using the Fibonacci sequence:

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 35

  • 5 miles = 8 kilometers
  • 21 miles = 35 kilometers
  • 10 miles (2 + 8) = 16 kilometers (3 + 13)

So this means 1 mile = 1 kilometer.

[–] peril33 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fun Fact: you can choose not to use miles

[–] joel_feila 6 points 1 year ago

Well I'm trying to get the the kilofoot to catch on

[–] scarabic 6 points 1 year ago

And after choosing not to use them, you might need to convert them to something else sometimes. You gonna tell me Europeans never travel to America as tourists? This is a fascinating and easy to remember method for them or anyone else.

You came to the right thread for shitting on Americans, obviously, but you chose the wrong place for this condescending comment.

[–] PrinzMegahertz 3 points 1 year ago

But I love Miles Morales

[–] zakobjoa 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone call someone, I think I had a stroke.

[–] scarabic 4 points 1 year ago

Fibonacci sequence just adds the two prior numbers to get the next number. Even your brain can recreate it anytime anywhere very easily.

[–] AeonFelis 3 points 1 year ago

It works because the ration between miles and kilometers (~1.609) is surprisingly close to the Golden Ratio (~1.618), and https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounders/fibonacci-and-golden-ratio

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"Americans doing anything to not use the metric system" today: the Fibonacci sequence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But why i should have to if I am not 'murican

Ps thank you.

[–] scarabic 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You… shouldn’t? Unless you travel here as a tourist, as many do. This is converting FROM miles. I don’t understand why anyone would pick this place to shit on people who use miles. This comment offers a way out of using miles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to give a meme-y answer since we are in a meme side of the lemmy. I even thanked the person even though I think I will never travel outside my country given my circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

In airspace, feet and miles are used very often

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but those are nautical miles, not murican miles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, nautical miles still have some logic behind, as they are based on degrees of latitude.

Still it's funny to me that they are still called miles.

[–] Ddhuud 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pilots, maybe, they're "special" like that. Engineers do not.

Jk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I appreciate this practical answer even though I just learned that only pilots uses this particular American measure system Americans call mile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And where do i know which part of the fib sequence to use?