I just learned the mind palace technique to memorize stuff and wanna put it to use.

  • Liam Galt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    13·
    1 year ago

    It’s true forever. The Fibonacci sequence used in this way converges on the golden ratio, which is close to the conversion of km and mi.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      1 year ago

      Someone already replied with a graph, but I also got curious and checked for some higher numbers. Sure enough, it held up.

      For example:
      832,040mi => 1,346,269km (actual: 1,339,039km)

    • Anticorp
      3·
      1 year ago

      So are you telling me that the inventors of the mile were using the golden ratio?

      • Maya@lemmy.fmhy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        We wish they were that cool, the inventors of the modern mile were more concerned about land measurements. A square mile is 640 acres. Which neatly can be cut into quarters 3 times. 160, 40, 10.