![]() ![]() The spiral numbers in a sunflower will always total a Fibonacci number, while dividing those pointing right and left will give you two consecutive Fibonacci numbers linked by the ratio 1.68. It usually marks the proportion of your hand to your forearm as well as the distance between your three knuckles on each finger. ![]() The ratio of 1.618 has already been found externally all over the human body. Some have argued that because the sequence seems to grow in an 'organic' way, the golden ratio may play a part in nature. Until you realise that this ratio is the key to everything from encrypting computer data, to the numbers of spirals on a sunflower head, our own limbs and why the Mona Lisa is so pleasing to the eye. ![]() If you take two successive numbers their ratio is very close to 1.618. In this sequence each number is the sum of the previous two, so it begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34. #Michelangelo dan brown code#Fans of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code will remember when the protagonist Professor Langton explains how mathematics and art collide via the 'golden ratio.'įor those who haven't read the populist thriller, it is the number 1.618 which has been plucked from the famous Fibonacci sequence. ![]()
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