{"id":2927,"date":"2013-02-14T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2013-02-11T23:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T04:47:45","slug":"converting-miles-to-km-with-fibonacci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/converting-miles-to-km-with-fibonacci\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting miles to km with Fibonacci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tri.png\" alt=\"tri\" width=\"472\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2928\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tri.png 472w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tri-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on Labrigger: <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/street-fighting-mathematics\/\">Street fighting mathematics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on that topic, and this is something the runners among us might appreciate, the Fibonacci sequence can be used to easily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catonmat.net\/blog\/using-fibonacci-numbers-to-convert-from-miles-to-kilometers\/\">convert miles to kms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take two consecutive Fibonacci numbers, for example 5 and 8. And you&#8217;re done converting. No kidding \u2013 there are 8 kilometers in 5 miles. To convert back just read the result from the other end &#8211; there are 5 miles in 8 km!<\/p>\n<p>Another example. Let&#8217;s take the consecutive Fibonacci numbers 21 and 34. What this tells us is that there are approximately 34 km in 21 miles and vice versa. (The exact answer is 33.79 km.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Previously on Labrigger: <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/street-fighting-mathematics\/\">Street fighting mathematics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on that topic, and this is something the runners among us might appreciate, the Fibonacci sequence can be used to easily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catonmat.net\/blog\/using-fibonacci-numbers-to-convert-from-miles-to-kilometers\/\">convert miles to kms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take two consecutive&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/converting-miles-to-km-with-fibonacci\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}