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Fibonacci sequence
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Tim Vaughan <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 3 Jul 2004 19:26:48 -0400
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A young student friend is working on a math project, and it's above my
head. Are there any comments on how he interpreted my explaination of the
bee family tree?

Thanks

"Drone has a mother.
Mother has a father and mother (grandparents of drone).
Grandfather has a mother, grandmother has a father and mother (great-
grandparents of drone) and so on and so on making the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3,
5, 8, 13, 21…Fibonacci sequence.  I am interested in Phi/phi and numbers
closely related to it that occur in nature."

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