Fibonacci number pattern

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Scientists find clues to the formation of Fibonacci spirals in nature

By Lisa Zyga

While the aesthetics and symmetry of Fibonacci spiral patterns has often attracted scientists, a mathematical or physical explanation for their common occurrence in nature is yet to be discovered. Recently, scientists have successfully produced Fibonacci spiral patterns in the lab, and found that an elastically mismatched bi-layer structure may cause stress patterns that give rise to Fibonacci spirals. The discovery may explain the widespread existence of the pattern in plants.

http://www.physorg.com/news97227410.html

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Fibonacci Numbers, the Cochlea, and Poetry
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