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In a novel titled "The Da Vinci Code" the first eight numbers of the Fibonacci sequence were encoded by placing them in a random order. I have wondered why the brick-shaped monolith of the movie "2001" was said to have the proportions 1 by 4 by 9. Could the Fibonacci sequence be hidden in these numbers?
4 - 1 = 3 (a Fibonacci number)
9 - 4 = 5 (a Fibonacci number)
9 - 1 = 8 (a Fibonacci number)
9 + 4 = 13 (a Fibonacci number)
Is this just a coincidence?
"Analysis, whether economic or other, never yields more that a statement about the tendencies present in an observable pattern." Joseph A. Schumpeter; Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 1942
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I saw an interview with Arther C Clark where he said it was the squares of the first 3 numbers, but he didn't sound too convincing.
1^2 = 1
2^2 = 4
3^2 = 9
I always thought it approximated (very roughly) a humanoid form.
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