1/16/2024 0 Comments Fibonacci spiral mona lisaWikimedia What's the magical secret? The Golden Ratio Not impressed yet? The shape of your ear can be drawn by placing adjacent squares equal to the size of the consecutive Fibonacci numbers and then drawing a continuous arc through the corners, much like in the picture. Moving on from origin stories, how about a pine cone? Do you have a pine cone? Any pine cone? There will be exactly one of the Hemachandra (Fibonacci) number of spirals over and around it. So call it Hemacandra or the Fibonacci series – same difference. But alas! Sex sells and to be fair Fibonacci wasn't aware of Hemacandra. Hemacandra noticed this pattern in the syllables of Sanskrit poetry decades before Fibonacci saw it in the mating rituals of rabbits. So you add the sum to the previous number and you get the next, aka the Fibonacci series. If those nightmares before Math tests have had any lasting effect on you then you would immediately recognise the trend in the series. The number will always be one of these – 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stopped to smell a daisy ever? Please do that and when you do, count the number of petals. Math is also very much seen in nature, the way the world goes and grows around us. You see, Math has a funny way of creeping into our lives in ways other than counting the seconds to the end of a bad date or the remains of whatever is left in loose change (#demonetization). The answer lies in your childhood nemesis – Math!
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