Saturday, June 2, 2018

The Golden Ratio

Back when I lived in Greenville and spent lots of time in my backyard studying nature, I saw a repetitive pattern. I looked it up and learned it is called the Fibonacci spiral or sequence, named for the mathematician who identified it way before me. We see it all over, in pine cones, ocean waves, the seed head of a sunflower, the Milky Way galaxy, and in this tiny shell of a deceased snail - probably. It is also known as God's fingerprint.

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