Travis Haas
Hazel Green, WI
At 11:10 PM 12/17/02 -0500, Terri wrote:
>Bob,
>
>I can't recall the name of the theory, but will try to discribe it.
>Perhaps someone else will recognize it & put a name to it.
>
>Take the following numbers: 1 2 3 5 8 13 21...
>
>1+2=3 2+3=5 3+5=8 & so on, such that each number is the sum of the
>previous 2 numbers.
>
>How this relates biologically? It is nature's magical building #. For
>example, if you slice open a nautilus shell so as to show each of its
>inner sections, the formula for each section's size, from smallest to
>largest, equals the numbers I listed before: 1 2 3 5 8 13 21...
>It is also nature's formula for many other natural forms.
>
>Can one of y'all put a name to this formula for us?
>
>Terri
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