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Kowalski, temperature analysis (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fibonacci/Golden ratio = 1.618 Kilometres in 1 mile = 1.609

Conversion is off by less than 1%, not bad at all

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's nice an mysterious the first moment you hear about this but all the romance is gone once you think about how it works.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

By far the most complicated part is the fact that the ratio of successive terms in the Fibonacci sequence approaches a specific number (which happens to be the golden ratio, which happens to be close to the ratio of km/mi).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Great, now I have two charts to memorize.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You only have to memorize how the fibbonaci sequence works, which is just addind the previous 2 numbers together to get the next

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You only have to memorize ...

and have a lot of computing power available.

That algorithm ain't running itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

you're welcome

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But we only get one number to convert. We don't know what the previous number is in the sequence without a chart up to that number.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The starting numbers are 1 and 1.