<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">You may think that I just made a typo if I were to say 1, 1, 2, 3….. Isn’t it just 1, 2, 3? Well not with the amazing Fibonacci sequence, a series a numbers that adds the last two numbers in the sequence to get the next term. </o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">This number sequence was discover after the Italian Mathematician Leonardo of Pisa. It is used constantly in computer algorithms, search techniques, biological settings, and weaves its way into pretty much every single in our lives from the new iPhone, your iris, an acorn, all the way to the Milky Way Galaxy and our entire universe. </o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">The Fibonacci sequence is as follows: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…. To see this pattern at work let’s look at a few terms. We start at 1, then 1+0=1, 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, and the patterns continues forever. </o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">From a numerical standpoint, it appears frequently in computer settings. It’s crucial in many computing settings and provides a base for number relations in more advanced. It is fascinating to high school and college students to see the application of the Fibonacci sequence in their various technology related fields. </o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">However what is sometimes more amazing is its application in nature and the way anyone can understand and visualize this number sequence. If you take an acorn or pineapple for instance, count the number of spirals you see….was it one of the Fibonacci numbers?</o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">……not convinced?</o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Grab the next one, and the next one, the number of spirals on an acorn, petals on a flower, and leaves on your fern will all be a number in the Fibonacci sequence!</o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">What’s even more is that if we were to take the numbers and create squares connected at the corner of the size, the spiral made by connecting those corners of the squares appears literally everyone. And that’s no exaggeration. </o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">From tiny things like your iris, or the spiral of galaxies, the way pine trees fan out…everything is in this amazing Fibonacci sequence!!! </o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Go out a look around the world, you’ll see the power and the beauty of math as shown in this world changing sequence. Feeling extra Fibonacci love? Celebrate this amazing number sequence on Fibonacci day, which just so happens to be today, November 23!</o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">The reason November 23 is National Fibonacci day is because when in month-day format its 11/23, the first four digits in Fibonacci. In 2058, it’s going to be extra special as the day will be 11/23/58 and then centuries from now people will be able to celebrate super Fibonacci day on 11/23/5813!</o:p>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#333333">Happy Fibonacci Day from Mathnasium! </o:p>
