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Kowalski, temperature analysis (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Fibonacci/Golden ratio = 1.618 Kilometres in 1 mile = 1.609

Conversion is off by less than 1%, not bad at all

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year 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).

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