There are sequences that appear in nature time and time again, ones that seem to define the very basis of our reality and coordinate how everything comes together. One of these numbers is the Fibonacci sequence, and it can be found in the most surprising of places. Fibonacci Day commemorates this sequence and the man who brought it to our attention in 1202. That man would be Leonardo of Pisa, known today as Fibonacci. He was not the first to think of it however, just the first to bring it to the European world and bring awareness to its importance in the furthering of science. The sequence itself first appeared in Indian Mathematics, known as Virahanka numbers, and was connected with Sanskrit prosody. The number sequence is also tied to the golden ratio and the golden triangle, both of which appear again and again in nature, as does the sequence itself. It is in the most fundamental of things, from the petals of the yellow chamomile, the complex and seemingly random branching of a trees limbs, and these are just a few. Look deeper and you’ll find them within the pine cone and the shape of an unfurling fern, and in a truly strange one, it describes the family tree of bees and is deeply important to apiarists as a result.
Mmmmm, with a tomato and meatball sauce and cheese grated on top . Thanks for reminding me Bern, just about to do the Ocado order.
I remember the Fibonacci series was like this 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21, .......... where the first 2 numbers are 0,1 and the next number is the sum of the previous 2 numbers. I think I wrote a program in Basic once to calculate the series,
Morrisons have a huge range of the stuff, not quite boil in the bag but I suppose the addition of a generic tomato sauce would mask the cardboard flavour..
