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pmiller2
on Oct 17, 2011
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Fibonacci Flim-Flam.
Actually, because 1 mile is about 1.609344 km, you can convert approximately between miles and km using Fibonacci numbers. See
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/using-fibonacci-numbers-to-conv...
dextorious
on Oct 19, 2011
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And why use fibonacci numbers, instead of say, multiply by 1.6?
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