• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, it’s nice and mysterious the first moment you hear about this but all the romance is gone once you think about how it works.

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      10 months ago

      By far the most complicated part is the fact that the ratio of successive terms in the Fibonacci sequence approaches a specific number (which happens to be the golden ratio, which happens to be close to the ratio of km/mi).