Poet Brian Bilston wrote this delightful poem above describing, and embodying, the Fibonacci sequence in which each every number after the first two in a series is the sum of the preceding two numbers. (via @pickover)
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Jul 24, 2017
Delightful Fibonacci sequence poem
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