On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 22:12:32 -0500, David Fontaine wrote:
>Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>
>> It's also interesting to see how well the curves
>> in the Fibonacci pattern follows the edges of the
>> flower's leafs.
>
>Yeah, there's probably 1000 different places you could find the golden
>ratio or a Fibannochi number on a single plant...

You realize, of course, that there's a relationship between the two.

If F(n) is the n'th Fibonacci number, then 

  lim    F(n)/F(n-1) = phi      
n -> oo 

(where "oo" should be taken as a low-resolution version of the symbol for
infinity.)

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