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Video 2: "The Golden Mean" (week 8)
a. What do you know about the golden mean? b. What's the connection between the golden mean and mathematics? c. Mention five words you think you will listen to in the video.
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Please click on the following link watch the video and then answer the following questions. [] 1. What's the process to construct the Fibonacci numbers? 2. Why are many things designed using the Fibonacci rectangle and spiral? 3. Mention some examples of the Fibonacci spiral in the world around us and inside us. 4. In your opinion what are the applications of the Fibonacci theories?
 * II. While viewing and after viewing**

a. I have never heard this concept before. I would say it is a guy who was very mean and was rich, but I really don't know its real meaning. jajaja b. After the video I could tell. c. Gold, Age, Number, Difference, Sum
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1. To construct the Fibonacci number you have to start counting from 1 twice, and sum the two preceding numbers to the next one, ans so on. 2. In the construction of spirals, in cereal boxes, iphones, Kit-Kat image, VISAs, most of them because they are pleasing to the human eye. 3. Seashells, flowers, pinecones, hurricanes, embrions, galaxies, even in the DNA formation. 4. I think this number and ratio relations are used to have a greater appeal because of its harmonic shape and the form it gets when you develop it.
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