A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

The Fibonacci Series, a set of numbers that increases rapidly, began as a medieval math joke about how fast rabbits breed. But it’s became a source of insight into art, architecture, nature, and ...

No single number has been more celebrated than the Fibonacci sequence. Alternately kowtowed to as the Golden Ratio, the Divine Proportion, and That One Really Awesome Spiral, this famous number ...

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When Fibonacci introduced what would become an eponymous sequence, he did so using rabbits as an analogy. Breeding pairs of rabbits are able to multiply within their ranks infinitely. Unfortunately, ...

Some people like a little challenge in the morning, and that’s what Philippe Chretien hopes to offer with his new device. He is the man behind the Fibonacci Clock, which is exactly what it sounds like ...

Fibonacci trading: It's a math sequence that few retail investors use when planning their trades, one left mainly to technical traders at institutions. It's reliability is questionable, though ...

The world could use some good luck these days. Unfortunately, Ireland’s fabled solution — finding a four-leaf clover — remains as hard as ever to pull off this Saint Patrick’s Day. That’s because the ...

When, as a young trainee in a London dealing room, I was first introduced to Fibonacci numbers I was, as are most people, skeptical. The analysis consists of calculating significant levels based on a ...