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Kowalski, temperature analysis (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] theroastedtoaster@lemmy.world 140 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 29 points 10 months 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.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 20 points 10 months 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).

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great, now I have two charts to memorize.

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Stretch2m@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But we only get one number to convert. We don't know what the previous number is in the sequence without a chart up to that number.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The starting numbers are 1 and 1.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You only have to memorize ...

and have a lot of computing power available.

That algorithm ain't running itself.

[–] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

you're welcome