cm0002@europe.pub to Lifehacks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 17 days agoYou can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to kmeurope.pubimagemessage-square82linkfedilinkarrow-up1520arrow-down116
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minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 days agoYeah but earth is wobbly and imprecise so now we define the meter as “the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458th of a second”
minus-squareangrystego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 days agoThat’a a cool definition. I wouldn’t call it an origin though, that would still be the Earth measurement through Paris, which is also cool.
Yeah but earth is wobbly and imprecise so now we define the meter as “the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458th of a second”
That’a a cool definition. I wouldn’t call it an origin though, that would still be the Earth measurement through Paris, which is also cool.