Has anyone ever heard of the "Fibonnacci Sequence" or was it just one of those things a math teacher makes up for the sack of passing on useless information?
All we know is that its not in the dictionary and it has something to do with the rate at which two rabbits will reproduce after two months.
We’ve sat on this unforgettable information for three years now and we’re doing the only sensible thing we can do with it…we’re passing it on to others…
6 comments:
sounds like a question for the bunny blog.
Yes indeed!
The Fibonacci Sequence is a famous progression of numbers in which each term is equal to the sum of the two preceeding terms.
(1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.)
Source: "The DaVinci Code"
Dan Brown
Doubleday 2003
Go Figure...
oh that is cool- what kind of purpose does it serve? what is it used for?
Ahhhhh. Yes indeed, there was that small bit of info that we left out...but thats soooo forgettable when the teacher uses rabbits to demonstrate how it works!
Maybe someone else better answer what purpose it serves, all we know is it works for rabbits...at least on paper.
According to Mr. Fibonacci himself, the sequnce can apply to the question: "A man puts one pair of rabbits in a certain place entirely surrounded by a wall. How many pairs of rabbits can be produced from that pair in a year, if the nature of these rabbits is such that every month each pair bears a new pair which from the second month becomes productive?". A great thing to know if you are into rabbit breeding.
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