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Pingala (पिङ्गल)
Below is Pingala’s creation of Pascal’s Triangle before Pascal.
Did Pingala discover the Fibonacci sequence?
Where was the Fibonacci sequence discovered? While Fibonacci himself did not discover Fibonacci numbers (they were named after him), he did use them in Liber Abaci. The numbers originate back to ancient India and are credited to the Indian Mathematician Pingala.
The pattern hides a powerful secret: If you divide each number in the sequence by its predecessor (except for 1 divided by 0), then as you move toward higher numbers, the result converges on the constant phi, or approximately 1.61803, otherwise known as the golden ratio.
The following link shows several items of nature that follow the golden ratio; including humans, trees, flowers, shells (such as the nautilus) and even galaxies.
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