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Seems like the most common occurrence of the fibonacci series in nature is in bad programming language benchmark code.
by dextorious 15y ago
Seems like the most common occurrence of the fibonacci series in nature is in bad programming language benchmark code.
- pmiller2 15y agoActually, because 1 mile is about 1.609344 km, you can convert approximately between miles and km using Fibonacci numbers. See http://www.catonmat.net/blog/using-fibonacci-numbers-to-convert-from-miles-to-kilometers/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/using-fibonacci-numbers-to-conv...
- dextorious 15y agoAnd why use fibonacci numbers, instead of say, multiply by 1.6?