A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers

Re:A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers by dfeojm-zlib on Saturday August 10, 2019 @05:56AM (#20661137)

What's interesting is that the absolute error converges to ~0.5399705049968784% (or a floating-point type or constant imprecision were introduced).

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Re:A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers by mkl on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:53AM (#20661346)

.5*(1+sqrt(5))/1.609344 - 1 = 0.00539970867005111... actually, but that doesn't seem interesting either. What do you mean?

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Re:A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers by lonelappde on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:17AM (#20661204)

What's interesting about that number?

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