Phi in Open Space

[Harrison Owen]

"Fibonacci numbers" -- talk about esoterica! And once again we are back to
The Da Vinci Code. 

Harrison

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Rixon
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:58 PM
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Subject: Phi in Open Space

Dear All,

Viv has often asked me why it is that every meeting that she goes to
facilitate has either an odd or a prime number of people in it, making it
almost impossible for her to divvy up her group.

Well, I reckon we have Phi to thank for that. *grumble* *self-organisation*
*grumble* *grumble*

Or maybe I should say, the Fibonacci numbers.... See a simple way of
deriving Phi is first to take the Fibonacci number sequence: 

0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89

Then, if you take each Fibonacci number and divide it by the one before you
will eventually converge onto Phi.

I dunno about you, but is this something we might be able to generalize
across practictioners? :)

Cheers,
Andrew

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-----Original Message-----
From: Harrison Owen [mailto:hhowen at verizon.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 8:16 PM
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Subject: Re: The Da Vinci Connection --Phi

Wendy Wrote: If Phi is as ubiquitous in Nature as Brown suggests, it is
perhaps one of the hallmarks of self-organization?  I was wondering if we
see any instances of Phi in Open Space?  Any math fans out there interested
in taking a look for it? I'm going to start :-)


Wendy --good luck. And since I am one of those mathematically challenged
individuals, I leave it all to you and others.

H.

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-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Wendy
Farmer-O'Neil
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 4:59 AM
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Subject: Re: The Da Vinci Connection --Phi

Interesting that this thread has started.  There is something else that the
Da Vinci Code brought forward for me--the number Phi (
http://goldennumber.net/ ).

If Phi is as ubiquitous in Nature as Brown suggests, it is perhaps one of
the hallmarks of self-organization?  I was wondering if we see any instances
of Phi in Open Space?  Any math fans out there interested in taking a look
for it? I'm going to start :-)

Cheers,
Wendy 

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