Very nice! Now you could take your nautilus shell, make a mold, and manufacture ~160,000 copies & throw them into the ocean to be "found" by the Fibonacci cultists. There are some sea creatures that live in the shells left by dead nautiluses; perhaps they will find these homes more to their liking. On second thought, make the copies out of Fool's Gold. --- Perhaps you could 3D print a middle "finger" that has a large number of joints that approximates a Fibonacci spiral. At 01:22 PM 8/14/2012, George Hart wrote:
Hi Alex,
Unfortunately, as a consequence of this being hosted by the Guardian, I expect all the folks who uncritically see the golden ratio everywhere will now be blathering about golden uteri. I've started making a series of math videos and here's one rebuttal to the golden ratio cult:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gxC8OjoQkQ
As to the image on that page, I hope you don't mind if I interpret your use of the middle finger as an editorial comment. I feel it's misleading to show precise metal calipers and print 1.618, as if finger measurements were precise enough to support four significant digits.
George http://georgehart.com/
On 8/14/2012 10:23 AM, Alex Bellos wrote:
I've just launched a maths blog for the Guardian
Here's my first post: the research is serious, but any conclusions need to be taken with a medium to large dosage of salt.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2012/aug/14...
alex