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In mathematics, the Fibonacci sequence is...
a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones.
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There aren't many examples of shapes very similar to fractals in nature. True or false?
false
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Fractals are phenomena of...
self-similarity
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You can see fractals in the clouds. True or false?
Ture
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Individual numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are known as Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted...
Fn
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The term fractal was coined in...
1975
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Mathematics is the alphabet in which God wrote the universe. This is a sentence by ...
Galileo Galilei
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The term fractal derives from ... and it means
the latin , it means Broken
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Definition of a fractal
A fractal is a geometric object with internal homothety
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What did Archimedes draw inspiration from to even write his treatise?
Ammonite
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What's the title of Archimede's treatise?
On Spirals
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The cell nucleus is made up of a...
long spiral chain
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When did Ammonite live?
three hundred million years ago
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Thompson observed that the animal kingdom has a curious preference for particular numbers and spiral geometries. This theory he hypothesized could go back to the times of...
the ancient Egyptians
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What did D’Arcy Thompson clearly see?
hat the strange numerology of the plant world has important implications for the developmental biology of plants
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What is the name of our galaxy?
The Milky Way
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In the logarithmic spiral the distances between the arms increase according to...
a geometric progression
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In an Archimedean spiral the distance between the arms distances are...
constant.
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what is a golden spiral?
A golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral in which the constant ratio between consecutive radii (i.e two radii which differ by a right angle) is equal to the golden number.
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How is the arrangement of the leaves of some plants, defined?
the arrangement of the leaves of some plants, defined as phyllotaxis
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The Fibonacci numbers may be defined by the recurrence relation...
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The Archimedean spiral can be described by the equation...
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The Archimedean spiral has the property that any ray ...
from the origin intersects successive turnings of the spiral in points with a constant separation distance