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Why don't all pumpkin flowers have a Fibonacci number of lobes? 1,1,3,5,8, 13 is the start of the series. This number is found throughout nature, for example, bananas always have three segments (lobes), and the number of sections in a persimmon cut crosswise is a Fibonacci number, and the spirals in a pine cone and in sunflowers are fibonacci numbers. So where do the four-lobe and six lobe flowers come from? http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/fibslide/jbfibslide.htm http://www.popmath.org.uk/rpamaths/rpampages/sunflower.html
Wintertime (also known as the silly season) is definitely here

12/10/2005 3:48:09 PM

Norton, MA

Well, I have 5 fingers (Fibonacci), but 2 eyes (not Fibinacci)? AleX Noel.

12/10/2005 4:35:05 PM

Ca

I mislisted the series -- 2 is a Fibonacci number

12/10/2005 5:31:19 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

I have 10 fingers (not Fibonacci), but 2 eyes (Fibonacci)? Peace, Wayne
Well actually, 8 fingers and 2 thumbs (both Fibonacci)!!!

12/10/2005 8:47:31 PM

Norton, MA

Fine then, my gandfather had two thumbs (Fibonacci), and a set of 4 fingers (not Fibonacci), and a set of 2 and 3/4 fingers and one that didn't work all the way (Fingernotchy). LOL! Don't even ask about his twin! AleX Noel.

12/10/2005 10:04:57 PM

Rhode Island

this is way over my head

what the hell is a fibonacci anyway ? mabe its an italiom that lies a lot ? help me out here. i see a cartoon in your future door knob lol

ill just stick to growin um and leave the brain surgery stuff to you pumpkinitions.

pap

12/11/2005 1:39:49 AM

Owensboro, Ky.

I first read about Fibonacci in the novel "The Davinci Code". Peace, Wayne

12/11/2005 7:48:29 AM

Ca

Fibonacci is a number series, derived from adding the previous two numbers together. I don't understand how they get from zero to one and from there to two, but after that it's straighforward. Check out the two web sites in the first post, it explains it much better than I can. The point for this discussion is that flower parts, including the lobes of the ovaries, almost invariably are a fibonacci number, and for some reason that I don't understand, pumpkins have a significant number of four and six-lobed flowers. Again, look at the web sites, which have lots of great illustrations.

12/11/2005 1:59:52 PM

Massillon, Ohio

are you a math teacher ? lol

12/11/2005 4:15:24 PM