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There are many such ways to memorize conversion ratios. Admittedly, this one is particularly cool, since you can construct it from the fairly trivial fibonacci series. But I still feel, it’s no replacement for the actual solution; get rid of imperial and adopt metric.

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

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

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Great, now I have two charts to memorize.

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You only have to memorize how the fibbonaci sequence works, which is just addind the previous 2 numbers together to get the next

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You only have to memorize …

and have a lot of computing power available.

That algorithm ain’t running itself.

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Yeah, it’s nice and mysterious the first moment you hear about this but all the romance is gone once you think about how it works.

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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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