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TIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?) (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/til@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] 4 points 7 months ago

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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