Does Having So Many Faces Make You Great?
Both the best of humanity and the worst
Not all Ideas shown are shared with Editor merely, displayed.
before I leave can someone explain something to me that has been driving me crazy for weeks
for those who have played Bioshock Infinite, WHERE THE HECK DO SALTS COME FROM you know like ADAM was found in sea slugs by Tenenbaum and they modify genetic structure and stuff and it’s all explained…
There’s no direct allusion throughout the entire game that hints to the origin of salts. Vigors aren’t so much a new invention by Fink as they are a direct copy. So it maybe assumed that Fink and Comstock are simply harvesting the Adam slugs and rehashing the products under different names.
Decided to become a Nationalist-Anarcho-Capitalist
in solidarity with watertown, i’m going to finish this bottle of wine and play magic against myself until suspect #2 is either apprehended or killed
You know what’s really sad? That you probably are in solidarity with the people of Watertown…
I wouldn’t think to hard on the opinions of anyone who identifies as an anarcho-capitalitist my friend.
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What’s special about the shape of a Nautilus shell?
Who is Fibonacci, and how does his work relate to the shape of a Nautilus shell?
Leonardo Pisano Bigollo (c. 1170 – c. 1250) – aka Leonardo of Pisa or sometimes just Fibonacci – was one of the most famous mathematicians in the Middle Ages. He initiated the spread of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system to Europe, in his book Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation), published in the year 1202. This number system is based on 10 different glyphs or symbols, including a zero. It’s the system we use every day: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0.
Fibonacci also laid the groundwork for our modern-day mathematical understanding of certain shapes in nature, including Nautilus shells. In his book, Fibonacci introduced what’s now called the Fibonacci number or sequence, which can be described as follows.
Suppose you place two baby rabbits in a garden. The pair, at one month old, is too young to reproduce. Suppose that in their second month, and every month after that, they produce two more rabbits. If each new pair of rabbits does the same, the number of pairs each month increases according to the following sequence, starting with 0 and 1. This sequence begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987. Each number is the sum of the two previous numbers.
See a movie that demonstrates how to construct a Fibonacci spiral.
1999 article mathematician Keith Devlin: New mathematical constant discovered
Fibonacci Flimflam via Lock Haven University
Images 1 | Cutaway of a nautilus shell showing the chambers arranged in an approximately logarithmic spiral. Image via Wikipedia’s Mathematics Portal.
Image 2 | Fibonacci via Wikimedia Commons
Image 3 | An approximation of a logarithmic spiral, created by drawing circular arcs connecting the opposite corners of squares in the Fibonacci tiling; this one uses squares of sizes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and 34. Image via Wikipedia.
Image 4 | A tiling with squares whose side lengths are successive Fibonacci numbers via Wikipedia.
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