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Meh... what I've always gotten out of stuff about Fibonacci numbers is that it's pretty amazing that a lot of disparate things in nature seem to arrive at simil
by thefool 15y ago
Meh... what I've always gotten out of stuff about Fibonacci numbers is that it's pretty amazing that a lot of disparate things in nature seem to arrive at similar patterns because very different situations end up having similar sorts of constraints.
The fact that the Fibonacci sequence doesn't explain the mechanism is kinda the beauty of the thing.
Sure people take it too far, or misinterpret it and what not... but that doesn't stop this article from being a little silly.
- tripzilch 15y agoExcept that if you look at what processes in nature really arrive at Phi, they are not that disparate at all. Which is why it's important to point out that Phi does not occur in the spiral of a nautilus shell or a galaxy or in fact any spiral. But it does occur in a very specific type of growth mechanism, in the form of an angular ratio of 137.5:222.5 degrees. And only there. Which makes Phi just about as equally amazing as the exponential function, squares of integers, triangular numbers, limited growth sigmoid function, the Feigenbaum constant, spheres, circles, symmetry, lines or just about anything else where something in Mathematics explains a tiny part of nature ;-)