SPIRA MIRABILIS Do you recall the Monty Python sketch where the Leader of The People’s Front of Judea asks his followers rhetorically: “What have the Romans ever done for us?” Frustratingly for the hapless orator, he gets too many ingenuous answers to his question ! It would be much the same thing if a scientific flunkey asked a group of mathematicians: “What has the Fibonacci Series (below) ever done for us?” 0 : 1: 1 : 2 : 3 : 5 : 8 : 13 : 21 : 34 : 55 : 89 : 144 : 233 et

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