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[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 51 points 10 months ago
[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

Those Su-30s are probably long gone by now, but they can't take the glide bombs with them.

Good time to destroy infrastructure

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Finders keepers

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 39 points 10 months ago

50 miles = 80.47 km (rounded)

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

50 miles = 4223989.5 hammer units (rounded)

[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

How many football fields or double decker buses is that?

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

How many bananas is that?

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

This is left as an exercise for the student.

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Is that source engine or blam? I can't remember, or are those both wrong?

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Got it. Thank you

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Valve engine.

[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Converting miles to kilometers and vice versa is a fun exercise to do in your head

The Fibonacci sequence (where every number in the sequence is a sum of the previous 2 numbers) has a ratio of Fib(n)/Fib(n-1) converging to the golden ratio phi (~1.618) as n approaches infinity.

A mile is 1.609 kilometers, so the ratio of phi is an extremely close approximation of that.

What this means is you can easily use the Fibonacci sequence to quickly convert from miles to kilometers using adjacent numbers in the sequence

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ...

So you can quickly see something like 5 (or 50, or 500) miles is approximately 8 ( or 80, or 800) kilometers.

Also, yiu can quickly do easy multiplication or division to figure out other approximate distance.

Say, for 6 miles. 3 miles ( * 2) = 5km ( * 2) = 10km.

For 11 miles, 55 miles * 2 = 110 miles / 10 = 11 miles, and 89 km * 2 = ~180 km / 10 = 18 km [actual conversion is 17.703 km, so, pretty close]

You can do similar approximations by using other multiples.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Fuck the blyats.

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