POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Fibonacci : Re: Fibonacci Server Time
6 Oct 2024 15:19:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fibonacci  
From: Orchid XP v3
Date: 6 Sep 2006 16:03:39
Message: <44ff299b$1@news.povray.org>
>> I can't actually think of a *use* for Fibonacci numbers, come to think 
>> of it.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Applications
> 
>   One thing where I know it is also used is in predicting currency
> market fluctuations.

Their appearence in Pascal's triangle might make them useful, 
possibly... The rest looks mainly like theoretical uses.

I know the *ratio* of consecutive numbers approaches the golden mean - 
but there are much easier ways to compute that.


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