Friday, March 29, 2013

Stupid Math Tricks I

Ah, the Fibonacci Sequence...how will I ever use that in my day-to-day life?  Turns out the relationship between miles and kilometers is pretty close for reasonable values:

5 miles is about 8 kilometers...


km
mi
mi
km
2
1.24
1
1.61
3
1.86
2
3.22
5
3.1
3
4.83
8
4.97
5
8.05
13
8.07
8
12.87
21
13.04
13
20.92
34
21.12
21
33.8
55
34.17
34
54.72
89
55.3
55
88.51
144
89.48
89
143.23
233
144.78
144
231.75
377
234.26


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