How are Fibonacci numbers expressed in nature?
Posted by staff / July 6, 2010Is there a magic equation to the universe? Probably not. But thanks to one man’s obsession with rabbits, we have a sequence of numbers that reflect various patterns found in nature.
You won’t find Fibonacci numbers everywhere in the natural world — many plants and animals express different number sequences. But, Fibonacci numbers appear in nature often enough to prove that they reflect some naturally occurring patterns. You can commonly spot these by studying the manner in which various plants grow. See more examples in this article.
Full article at HowStuffWorks.com.
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