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Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Amazing Fibonacci sequence fact


"Each term in the Fibonacci sequence is derived by adding the two preceding terms:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 …

Remarkably, you can use successive terms to convert miles to kilometers:

8 miles ≈ 13 kilometers
13 miles ≈ 21 kilometers

This works because the two units stand in the golden ratio (to within 0.5 percent)."

Thanks to: Futility Closet. The image, from Wikipedia's article on the Fibonacci sequence, is because many natural spirals (like the sunflower shown here) follow the Fibonacci sequence.

There is a whole website devoted to the Golden Ratio (as interesting as pi!) here.