No, it's not a type of pasta. I had heard the terms Fibonacci, Fibonacci numbers and Fibonacci Sequence but I didn't know what they referred to. It goes 1 (some people leave the first number 1 out), then 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377 and so on. The sequence is arrived at by adding the result of the first equation with the previous number in the sequence. So it goes 0 + 1 = 1 (some people leave this out) then 1 + 1= 2, the next in the sequence is 2 + 1 = 3 and then 3 +2 = 5, 5 +3 = 8, 8 +5 = 13, 13+ 8 = 21, 21 + 13 = 34, 34 + 21 = 55, etc.
Thanks to Melvyn at the BBC and his mathematical pals for enlightening me!
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very useful for setting passwords on things like wi-fi
oh its mcg!
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