▲ 494 ▼ You can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to km (europe.pub) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/lifehacks@sh.itjust.works 75 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent