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I always just use either 6/10 or 2/3, depending on which one is easiest to do in my head.

Yes, this means both 90 and 100 km/h both covert to 60mph. Close enough!


Is it because of how you do mental math? I saw 6/10 and immediately mentally registered 3/5, which is a simpler number to mental math with, for me anyways.
Yeah I guess it is. I’m good at doing tenths. Fifths are weird and scary to me :)

So the km:mi ratio is somewhere between 60:100 and 66:100. I choose whichever one makes sense depending on the number in front of me.

6/10 = 5/10 + 1/10 or in words: divide by two and add a tenth!

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