Friday, April 07, 2006

Fibs

Check this out!
http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-fibbery.html

Poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence? Can you think of anything that would excite me more? No.

For those of you not familiar with old Fibonacci, he is most famous for a recursive arithmetic sequence that was inspired by rabbit breeding (i kid you not). You set the first value=0 and the second value =1 then any number in the sequence is defined as the sum of the previous two values in the sequence (i.e. recursively defined). so it goes
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...
you can also set the first two values to 1 and 1 and it'll work out the same way (obviously). So here's what I want, I want you all to write poems and post them here. they must be of the form
1 syllable
1 syllable
2 syllables
3 syllables
5 syllables
8 syllables

like a haiku, only different.

The fibonacci sequence is truly a remarkable thing because it shows up a lot in naturally occuring phenomena. For instance, If we take the ratio of two successive numbers in Fibonacci's series, and we divide each by the number before it, the sequence converges to the golden ratio, Phi=1.618034. The spines around a pineapple follow the Fibonacci sequence as do the seeds in a sunflower. Pretty cool if you ask me.

so here's my contribution:

math
poems
so hot
so sexy
build the foundation
of transcendent joyous rapture

o.k. you guys can do better. post away!!!!

5 comments:

Ole said...

Oh
Nerd,
How you
Humor me.
First chuckle, then roar.
Subsiding at last to giggle.

Anonymous said...

Oh
Karl
Pearson
chi-square test
Biometrika
he loved linear regression!

sprocketplug said...

Beautiful!

more more I want more!!!!

Anonymous said...

Wrong guess on the Karl Pearson poem!

a&e said...

hi

pete,

goodness

gracious me!

you are some kind of

super poetic math type nerd.

maybe try going out with a female on a date

your head could be clear of all the building up and stress of engaging the white matter