After dividing 1 by 999-quattuordecillion (a number that’s 48 integers long), you get the Fibonacci sequence presented in neat, 24-digit strings. Here’s why that happens.

This spruce cone displays a marked fibonacci number sequence. The sequence, thought up by 13th-century Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, pen name Fibonacci, plays out in plants, from pine ...

The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two that precede it. Starting at 0 and 1, the first 10 numbers of the sequence look like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 ...

Those key ratios are derived from the division of one Fibonacci number by another Fibonacci figure one, two or three places further in the sequence: 0 divided by 1, or 0; 1 divided by 1, or 1; 1 ...

Leonardo Pisano (historically known as Fibonacci) lived in Pisa around 1200 A.D. He came up with a mathematical word problem involving the multiplication of rabbits. The answer is derived by ...