1. Standard memberwolfgang59
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    Just discovered this ....

    Two adjacent fibonacci numbers will give you a good
    approximation for converting kilometres to miles!

    Crazy.
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    @wolfgang59 said
    Just discovered this ....

    Two adjacent fibonacci numbers will give you a good
    approximation for converting kilometres to miles!

    Crazy.
    Yes, that is odd!
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    I believe that Fibonnacci numbers will eventually give 'the golden ratio', which happens to be 1.6ish
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    It was all a conspiracy to propagate the knowledge of Fibonacci numbers. It was done in secret meeting in wall street and in the queen's palace. They kind of screwed it up however, not totally accurate between kilometers and miles, which was put down to miscommunications between the queen's mathematicians and Wall street math guru's.
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    Something that only a few people have noticed is that in recent years, the ratio between a kilometer and a mile has more and more closely approximated Phi, but such observations are usually dismissed as the loony conspiracy theories of Mandela-effect ravers.
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    @caesar-salad said
    Something that only a few people have noticed is that in recent years, the ratio between a kilometer and a mile has more and more closely approximated Phi, but such observations are usually dismissed as the loony conspiracy theories of Mandela-effect ravers.
    What?
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    @blood-on-the-tracks said
    I believe that Fibonnacci numbers will eventually give 'the golden ratio', which happens to be 1.6ish
    Yes that is correct, just a huge coincidence that the conversion
    rate between km and miles is roughly the Golden Ratio.
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    @caesar-salad said
    Something that only a few people have noticed is that in recent years, the ratio between a kilometer and a mile has more and more closely approximated Phi, but such observations are usually dismissed as the loony conspiracy theories of Mandela-effect ravers.
    Are kilometres getting bigger or miles getting smaller? 😉
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    @wolfgang59 said
    Are kilometres getting bigger or miles getting smaller? 😉
    As the universe expands both are growing longer in a manner that preserves the ratio. That's gotta be it.
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    @wolfgang59 said
    Are kilometres getting bigger or miles getting smaller? 😉
    That might depend on fluctuations in the Bergsonian Constant.
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    Dear yet sometimes (often?) deplorable Duchess, that is interesting information, but I wish you had taken the time to deal with the line breaks, which would have been the respectful thing to do.

    You might be surprised how many lying racist trolls are aware of their blindered education and are keenly interested in the history of scientific and philosophical developments all around the globe.
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    @blood-on-the-tracks said
    I believe that Fibonnacci numbers will eventually give 'the golden ratio', which happens to be 1.6ish
    I somehow landed on that about 40 years ago when I was a young painter (at the time, I also tried mapping the optical-complement color wheel against the 12-tone musical scale -- I think Newton did something similar, much earlier).
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