The Fibonacci series depicted as a spiral.
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The Science Quiz seems twice per week within the every day science web page. The web page is offered to learn on all days besides Saturday within the epaper.
Questions (solutions on the backside):
1. Name the textual content written by the scholar Pingala, who lived across the third to second century BC, wherein some students imagine he described the Fibonacci sequence.
2. In 1202, the Italian mathematician Leonardo Bonacci, a.ok.a. Fibonacci, wrote a manuscript entitled _____ _____, wherein he popularised the Indo-Arabic numerals, apart from discussing the sequence named for him. Fill within the clean.
3. The German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler discovered that the ratio of successive numbers of the Fibonacci sequence converges to a specific quantity. Name this well-known quantity.
4. All constructive integers will be expressed because the sum of at the very least two non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers. What is that this theorem referred to as?
5. In a sport referred to as _________ ___, gamers take turns to take away cash stacked in a column. On every flip, a participant can take 2x at most, the place x is the variety of cash eliminated on the earlier transfer. The one that removes the final coin wins. Name the sport.
Visual:
In this picture of a spiral, the yellow portion, the blue portion, and the white portion all have the identical space. What is that this spiral referred to as?
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HB (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Answers:
1. Chandahsastra
2. Liber Abaci
3. Golden ratio
4. Zeckendorf’s theorem
5. Fibonacci nim
Visual: Fermat’s spiral
