yeather comments on You can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to km

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but does the kilometer have a cool origin like the mile? Checkmate math nerd.

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[+] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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"

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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.