this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
461 points (96.9% liked)

Lifehacks

206 readers
366 users here now

Efficiency in all walks of life.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Varyk@sh.itjust.works
461
You can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to km (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/lifehacks@sh.itjust.works
73 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Interesting, but if I have to look up a conversion I’ll just look up the actual conversion rather than an approximation.

[–] Hufschmid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 35 minutes ago

Why have brain when have computer

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 49 minutes ago

The point is you don't have to look it up. Fibonacci is really easy to compute in your head.