If you’re an old school programmer it’s even easier. To convert kilometres to miles treat the former as a decimal number and convert to hexadecimal. From miles to kilometres treat the former as a hexadecimal number and convert to decimal.
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WHAT. How did I never know this!?
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Just metric. Refuse anything else.
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Nautical miles rules
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You might like this “all 5” formulation of the golden ratio I came up with a few years ago: φ = .5 + .5 x 5^.5 (I can’t believe it is original but haven’t found an earlier example.)
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This is actually really close, nice find!
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Too bad there's no 13 km, 21 km, or 34 km races. Let's see... 0.5% error? ratio=1.005399 mile=1.609344 km phi=1.61803398875
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The metric mile should be 1600 m then, not 1500 m. Just sayin.
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Or we could abolish miles, feet, toes, stones, rocks, pebbles, gardens or whatever is being used instead of the consistent metric system. Some skills are useless in a sane society, converting to ridiculous measurement systems is one of them.
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You should have a pint and figure out to how to the extra mile to get the US to change to metric, and the UK to change all its road signs Until then...
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