Macmillan Holdings, LLC. mathdude, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Learn what the Fibonacci sequence is, its relationship to population growth, and how it can make you the life of the party. almoore sampleCategory It's a similar sequence Chris but not essentially the same. None of the numbers above 8 are Fibonacci numbers. http://www.numberempire.com/17179869184 http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52212#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52212#Comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:54:20 GMT Chris Miller sampleCategory @almoore - it's essentially the same sequence. Each term is 2 raised to the power of the equivalent Fibonacci number: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,... http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52154#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52154#Comments Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:08:06 GMT almoore sampleCategory I was playing around with a similar sequence a while back but multiplied the previous two numbers in the sequence to get the third. Starting with 1 and 2 the sequence was as follows: 1;2;2;4;8;32;256;8192;2097152;17179869184... I wonder what the name of this type of sequence is. http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52106#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52106#Comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:15:04 GMT rikonjohn sampleCategory Hey Math Dude: You said mathematicians don't discover new things by spending all their time drudging long division problems like my fourth, fifth and sixth grade math teachers made me do back in the 1960's (the sadistic bastards), but by playing! Ok, I get it. Mathematicians know how to play except it isn't with battle axes, dirt clods, building forts, tree houses, grenades, swords or trebuchets - unless these would help them prove their theory somehow. "Play" is the keyword in this post. It's a VERY important keyword and should never be forgotten. That's because there's another class of Braniac that plays with their minds every bit as well as those math guys, including my sadistic grade school math teachers who enjoyed perpetrating long division hell on their helpless students. These guys are the "Artists". The visual artists to be exact. The guys who take something like what you do and make really cute and often beautiful animated movies revealing that there is indeed a practical side to mathematical play that might not otherwise be revealed. Unlike my grade school teachers, those sadistic bastards! Who, under threat of a failing grade, made me spend endless nights tied to the desk working out dadgam sockcussing fothermucking long division problems. This is the best EVER example I've seen of an artist PLAYING with a mathematicians ideas regarding the fibonacci numbers. Please note I spelled "Fibonacci" as "fibonacci" since I stand quite convinced that ***hole probably made his students practice long division. That sadistic bastard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA&feature=plcp http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52087#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52087#Comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:53:41 GMT Walter sampleCategory @Anil, I agree with @JB. Lighten up. In the history of mathematics it's very often the re-discoverer whose name gets associated with an idea. http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52075#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52075#Comments Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:04:26 GMT Rich sampleCategory Good fun. thanks http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52074#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52074#Comments Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:29:50 GMT JB sampleCategory @Anil, Fibonacci and many others "discovered" these concepts independently at different times. If you have the basic mathematical concepts sitting around long enough, someone will come up with them. Lighten up. We live in a European based culture right now. In a few hundred years, when India and China rule the earth, it will be called the "Anil Spiral" or something like that. http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52063#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52063#Comments Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:41:19 GMT Amar Bhat sampleCategory Very well Written and entertaining. Could expand a bit more in the last part on why therefore in the rabbit growth example is the Fibonacci sequence a better model than geometric growth. Is it just because the 12 month population was less with the Fibonacci seq? Thanks and keep up the good work. http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52026#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52026#Comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:36:29 GMT Michael Kelly sampleCategory This was great Jason. Nothing gets a day started better than wrapping one's head around a number puzzle. Cheers to you Sir. http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52015#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=52015#Comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:01:48 GMT anil sampleCategory Febunacci discovered nothing. He only done was copying and popularized the Indian mathematics. the golden ratio and number sequences are most common in India around thousand years before febunacci has born.Also pascal theory copied from Indian mathematic books and authors. You did not know Europeans it is a steal that one or two authors written so many books telling it is written and discovered by another person? http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=50994#Comments http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx?commentid=50994#Comments Sat, 26 May 2012 17:00:18 GMT Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:54:20 GMT http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us