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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by rich_sasha on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:38PM (#44820345)
1 mile = 1,000 [double] paces of 0.8m each = 1,600m

1m = 1e-10 times half-meridian from the North Pole to the equator, via Paris for a croissant, apparently.

So kind of a coincindence... But a very neat one. Meanwhile, ratio of adjacent Fibonacci numbers converves to some expression involving sqrt(5) which is approx 1.6

Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by zveyaeyv3sfye on Thursday August 07, 2025 @08:09AM (#44823412)
converges