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Broccoli - Brassica oleracea var. italica "Romanesco"

 

In addition to being a beautiful addition to the garden, Romanesco broccoli provides a math lesson for students and adults who don’t get cross-eyed thinking about math. It’s a great example of Fibonacci numbers and fractals. Fibonacci numbers are a series of numbers, invented/discovered by Leonardo Fibonacci, where “each number after 1 is equal to the sum of its two predecessors.”

That quote comes from a great website that uses Romanesco and sunflowers (you could use pineapples too) to explain the series:

scienceray.com/mathematics/leonardo-fibonacci-a-natural-g...

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Uploaded on December 8, 2017
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