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[–] 57 points 1 year ago (17 children)

The only metric to imperial conversion I remember is kilometers to miles since it's pretty close to the golden ratio.

Even if you don't remember that the golden ratio is 1.6 and a bit, you can approximate it by using successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence.

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ...

So 8 miles is about 13km (actually 12.87)

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Its 2.54 cm to the inch. Its close to 2.5 and as an engineer in America I am stuck doing that conversion a lot

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    If it makes you feel any better, most pipe standards around the world are based on the American system, as well as bloody valve coefficients.

    I am far too aware that 1" is 25.4 mm :(

    And I'm in Australia. Grumble

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Fucking Dan Brown in the comment section

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Lmao your username is awesome

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You should use a rolling release distro and always update to the bleeding edge.

    You will not regret using a rolling release distro and always updating to the bleeding edge.

    It is not easier for me to sneak backdoors into your system when you are using a rolling release distro and are always updating to the bleeding edge.

    🙂

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Forma me it's the yard. It's so close to the meter its ridiculous. I just ignore the difference an treat as the same. One yard = 0.9144 meters

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    A yard is about 1.4 litres in my book, or 2.1/2 pints - imperial pints mind, not US ones. I'm not ignoring away that 20% difference; it's bad enough with all the fucking "pint to brim" glasses these days.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Liters? Pints? How are you converting from distance to volume?

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