Also, I learned simple mph-to-kph conversions by forcing myself to exclusively use the metric setting on the speedometer. Easy, passive learning.
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I was watching the movie 3 Iron. The guy steps on a scale and it says he is 65 kg. I start yelling at the movie because that guy is clearly 85 kg. He gets off the scale, takes it apart, puts it back together and gets back on it. 85 kg.
That was the moment I read I had completely mastered metric weights.
Also, switch your phone to Celsius!
Join us.
I’d rather switch my phone to Kelvin. 0-100F perfectly captures the human experience of temperature.
Cool kids use Rankine
Apparently you can use the Fibonacci sequence to estimate the conversation pretty accurately.
Eg: 3mi is 5km, 5mi is 8km, 8mi is 13km, etc.
I usually just remember that 100km is about 60mph and scale from there
Yeah, that or the 1.6 thing (100mi is about 160km). Then just estimate from there.
The Fibonacci sequence tends to grow at the Golden ratio (approx 1.618) while the actual conversion is ~1.609 so it does usually work well.
In fact any Fibonacci-like sequence with different starting numbers eventually will work, after it gets past the initial crop of bad conversations, as such sequences have growth rates than tend toward the golden ratio as they grow long enough.
For example starting from 2, 9 instead of 1, 1:
2, 9, 11, 20, 31, 51, 82
20 mi ~= 32 km
31 mi ~= 50 km
51 mi ~= 82 km
I don’t think I have ever seen a speedometer that could be switched like that. I’ve seen old digital ones that could be switched. But not one with a needle that didn’t just have both MPH and KPH on the dial marks.
I reached the 200000km mark when parking at home. How dull is that?
You did it. You beautiful bastard.
200 000 Odos!
And you don’t have to look down to see how your prindle is set!
