cm0002 to Lifehacks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 6 months agoYou can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to kmimagemessage-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up1527arrow-down116
arrow-up1511arrow-down1imageYou can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to kmcm0002 to Lifehacks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square79linkfedilink
minus-squareYeather@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-26 months agoYeah, but does the kilometer have a cool origin like the mile? Checkmate math nerd.
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-26 months agoYeah but earth is wobbly and imprecise so now we define the meter as “the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458th of a second”
minus-squareangrystego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoThat’a a cool definition. I wouldn’t call it an origin though, that would still be the Earth measurement through Paris, which is also cool.
minus-squaregroet@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months ago one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth’s North Pole to the equator On ten-thousandth. The circumference through the poles is ~40,000km
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoover land or straight line?
Yeah, but does the kilometer have a cool origin like the mile? Checkmate math nerd.
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Yeah but earth is wobbly and imprecise so now we define the meter as “the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458th of a second”
That’a a cool definition. I wouldn’t call it an origin though, that would still be the Earth measurement through Paris, which is also cool.
On ten-thousandth. The circumference through the poles is ~40,000km
over land or straight line?