Now you can have Cython’s speed boost without its cumbersome syntax, using the pure Python syntax you know ... (not very efficiently) the Fibonacci sequence for a given number.

Other than being a neat teaching tool, the Fibonacci sequence shows up in a few places in nature. However, it's not some secret code that governs the architecture of the universe, Devlin said.

After dividing 1 by 999-quattuordecillion (a number that’s 48 integers long), you get the Fibonacci sequence presented ... God or aliens talking to us in code, but rather something a bit simpler.