Posted on 03/02/2012 9:17:36 AM PST by Short Bus
It was in the first Star Wars movie: "The Fibonacci Series surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together." Or maybe I'm mis-remembering that a little.
The Fibonacci numbers are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... (add the last two to get the next)
From this seemingly simple beginning, a profundity of complexity ensues.
These numbers and their relationships occur in Nature, and perhaps came under study for that reason. But anyone can follow these revelations, even when they lead to marvelous insights.
Wiki gives it a very pretty presentation.
Thomas, you are SOOOO silly! Which is why I love you so much! You cute little Thing! Don’t you EVER die!
1/x = x+1
x=0.61803398874989484820458683436564
Doggies...this is beyond the Face’s comprehension...
HALP!
I am so null and void when life gives me Things To Deal With.
Again, Nully, Happy Brithday, and allow life to give you LIFE!
XOXOXOXO
Uh, wish me a belated "Happy Birthday," maybe?
I woke up in the middle of the night once, and looked at the clock.
That's it; I'm setting an alarm...
An event to be surpassed only by 12:12:12 12/'12
Vi Hart is pretty good.
If you can keep up with her frenetic pace, that is.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart
Not bad!
You are right in referring to those things being part of the question about Obama. My questions extend much further. Who financed and laid the path for all of Obama’s college time? How long is the path of Obama’s relationship with Axelrod and his family who are known communists and have roots if not associations with communists in Russia? Where was Obama’s mother around Aug. 4, 1961? What were Obama’s association with communists in the USA apart from whatever his association with Wright has meaning/implications? etc., etc., etc.
"Don period costumes left over from a low-budget movie? ;)"
B-wear the Ides of March. Okay, maybe that was lame, but hey, isn't that one of the functions of the UT?
i believe you can go through college without having heard of fibonacci numbers except perhaps in passing.
i read about them first in a student science magazine my parents subscribed to for me. then my high school math teacher did a segment on them - but he was a state award-winning teacher who went waaaaay off-book with special projects to 'enrich the learning experience.'
i had to do a project, with backboard, on fibonacci numbers as a sophomore in high school and have read anything i've seen about them since.
i love the way fibonnaci numbers occur in nature. the number of petals on almost every flower species in a fibonnaci number. daisies, for example, have 13, 21, 34, 55 or 89 petals except in the case of mutation; each of those is a fibonacci number.
from the top, the tiny florets in the core of a daisy blossom - there are twenty-one counterclockwise and thirty-four equiangular spirals. both fibonnaci. and they are successive fibonnaci numbers.
same for the spirals on a pinecone or a pineapple - fibonnaci in number, and successive fibonnaci numbers to boot. except that, because pineabpples have hexagonal 'scales', there are three distinct types of spirals, all fibonacci in number, and three successive fibonnaci numbers.
it's eerie, and i'm not talking about upper midwestern lakes.
That was clever.
Heck, I could do that job. Particularly today.
I don’t think I’m qualified - lying on one’s face while wearing glasses is uncomfortable.
Glasses aren’t required when your eyes are closed, unless you have trouble bringing your dreams into focus.
There’s something to be said for that.
WHOA! That was an eye-opener, and make no mistake!
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