• virku@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is so incredibly much complicated to me than just multiplying or dividing by 1.6.

    And also 55 km is 34 miles, not 31. I had to run it through a converter tool just to be sure.

    Edit: I reread your comment. The goal was 50 kilometers. Then the math checks out. Sorry!

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      1 year ago

      just multiplying or dividing by 1.6 is about as accurate as my strategy in the other direction - the real value is almost exactly between them.

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        1 year ago

        I guess as long as it works it works. I don’t have to do much of those conversions though. Here in Norway we are metric in almost all of our measurements. Except for some specialist measures like a carton of eggs is a dozen. We often say things happened a fortnight or so ago, etc.