ricitosdeplata
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 09/2015: Via de la Plata
It's been slow going to have to multiply and divide to figure out how many km there are in a distance in miles and vice versa. When I was using Google to convert I ran into a quicker way by using fibonacci numbers. These are the sequence of numbers that you get by ading two adjacent numbers. Starting with 0, add 1. This gives you 0,1,1. Add 1 and 1, you get 2, for the sequence 0,1,1,2. Repeating this your sequence is then 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55 etc.
If you want to convert 5 miles into km, look at the number to the right to see that it's 8 km. Or you could see that 34 km is 21 miles. This system is approximate, but it's a quick way to figure out distances.
For most of the world, kms aren't a problem. Maybe if one of the U.S. presidential hopefuls wins, might change.
Here's the link and further explanation of how to figure numbers not on this sequence:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/using-fibonacci-numbers-to-convert-from-miles-to-kilometers/
If you want to convert 5 miles into km, look at the number to the right to see that it's 8 km. Or you could see that 34 km is 21 miles. This system is approximate, but it's a quick way to figure out distances.
For most of the world, kms aren't a problem. Maybe if one of the U.S. presidential hopefuls wins, might change.
Here's the link and further explanation of how to figure numbers not on this sequence:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/using-fibonacci-numbers-to-convert-from-miles-to-kilometers/