Carl George walk in the Preserve / P6020016
Photos by Don Porter
06/03/2001
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Carl explains the counter-rotating spirals of the cone of the white pine. The numbers of points in a circle are 3 in one direction, 5 in the other. Different species of conifers have different numbers of points in their spirals. BUT: these numbers are always Fibonacci numbers. AND: Fibonacci numbers approach that same "Golden Mean" in the ratio of each number in the sequence to the one that follows it.
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