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You can use Fibonacci numbers to approximately convert miles to km (europe.pub)
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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

isnt it easier to give them simple conversions 1mi=0.6km.

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Might want to check your units.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's rough estimation, a deviation of anything less than 50% is accurate enough for that

Edit: Ooh I thought you were trying to "um actually, it's 1.66", but I just realised they put 0.6 instead of 1.6

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