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TIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?)
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cm0002 europe.pub cm0002@europe.pub
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence

The other interesting tidbit here is that the "Fibonacci" sequence had already been described in India over 1000 years before Fibonacci.
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rockerface🇺🇦 lemmy.cafe rockerface@lemmy.cafe
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It do be like that in maths sometimes. Ancient Egyptians were using Pythagorean theorem to build right angles from a 3, 4, 5 triangle long before Pythagoras was even a name.
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