Written: April 1(!), 2025
Like most (but unfortunately not all) of my friends, relatives, and acquaintances, I am not a big fan of our current president. But he is not all bad! I really love his soon-to-be-made-public decision to enlarge the mile by about 0.54 percent.
Perhaps dear Donald does not know it, but this is very useful for making my favorite mental math trick of converting miles into kilometers, and vice versa, even more accurate. Suppose that you are driving 55 mph, then you know right away that this is 89 kmh, since you know, by heart, all the Fibonacci numbers, and 89 is the Fibonacci number that comes right after 55. If you are driving 68 mph, then of course since 68=55+13, you know, all in your head, that this is 89+21=110 kmh.
While I disagree with most of our beloved president's decisions, for once he made a golden one! Thanks!