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Converting to Metric

5 January, 2009 (06:53) | Cartoon, Science-general

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Comment from Uncle Al
Time: January 5, 2009, 2:06 pm

As has been said, miles and klicks are a Fibonacci sequence near enough.
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34… Given one number in miles, the next is that distance in kilometers. The interested reader is invited to adapt that to penis vs. Bic pen length re XKCD. More studies are needed.