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It'd be perfect if we can have a toggle to switch to metric system, like kilometers, meters, celsius for temperature, etc. I find it very hard to follow the num
by musikele 1y ago
It'd be perfect if we can have a toggle to switch to metric system, like kilometers, meters, celsius for temperature, etc. I find it very hard to follow the numbers expressed in miles
- navane 1y agoI know it's a dumb trick but it works for me: I use the Fibonacci sequence. 3 miles? 5 km. 8miles? 13km. 33 miles? 55km.
- catoc 1y agoHa! That’s nice. I never realized 1.609 miles/km is close to the golden ratio (1.618)
- donpott 1y agoIt is quite clever. My own rule of thumb is "add half of the amount in miles, then 10% of the (original) amount in miles". What's interesting is that it happens to be just as precise as the method shown above (ie. 1.6 v 1.609 v 1.618 )
- gus_massa 1y agoMy dumber version: Just multiply by 1.5. It's fine unless you are using a treasure map.
- chakintosh 1y agoSame here. Usually it's x1.6 but 1.5 is easier to calculate and you add a teeny bit after.
- alt227 1y agoMine is divide by 3, multiply by 5. Simple and quite accurate.
- mnaimd 1y agoHey, this is very smart. The golden ratio... Wow!
- DanielVZ 1y agoFahrenheit is easy if you just forget trying to translate it to Celsius and just equate it to roughly: - 0 = freezing - 50 = mild - 100 = Very hot (not burning just very hot)
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- stephen_g 1y agoYeah but Fahrenheit still feels super alien and unintuitive if you haven’t used it much. I have like three or four approximate values that I think I know what they feel like, but most of the time I really have to stop and think.
- anton-c 1y agoFor casual human use I would say Fahrenheit is one of the more easily defended imperial units since it has more resolution. In reality hearing its 80 outside where I live could mean beautiful day or sweltering mugginess so it's never been a great indicator for me regardless of unit. Or when people adjust a thermostat by like 2 degrees. If you changed it and didn't tell me idk if I would even perceive it. Temperature is weird.
- eCa 1y agoWe Celsius users use decimals if we need higher resolution.
- anton-c 1y agoThat's fair. When I put "I would say" followed by "in reality" it means I don't fully support it. The previous comment said they don't find F that useful since they aren't familiar. I am, and I dont find it that useful for predicting how it actually feels outside. Celsius doesn't change much for me in that situation.
- Chico75 1y ago
- tbassetto 1y agoI can somehow convert distances in my head, by pace is harder! If someone has a trick to quickly convert between minutes/mile and minutes/km please chime in.
- fivestones 1y agoYeah! Please do
- mosquitobiten 1y agoI always use minutes as percentages of hours to convert miles to km, 30min is 0.5 hours so following that 30miles=50km.