Post #1394442
2024-08-24 18:48 UTC
@mhoye This is extraordinarily interesting. How large do we have to go before the numbers diverge too much to be useful?
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@diazona@techhub.social 2024-08-25 01:33
@owen @mhoye It depends on how you define "useful", but since the ratio between consecutive Fibonacci numbers gets closer to 1.618... as you go higher, it's always going to be within 1% once you go beyond 5mi (8km). So I'd say it stops being useful once you no longer have a use for numbers that large 😂
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@mhoye@mastodon.social 2024-08-25 01:33
@owen As far as you want to go. Given that it's an estimation that's good to within less than one percent, it's good basically to infinity. Anyone needing more precision than that won't be using an estimation heuristic.