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Kowalski, temperature analysis (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [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).