Posted on 04/21/2017 9:41:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber
For hundreds of years until the ebb of the Italian Renaissance, one name was synonymous with arithmetic. This was Leonardo not the polymath from Vinci, but Leonardo Pisano (ca. 1170-1250), now popularly known as Fibonacci.
Yet we know little of Fibonaccis life beyond the nickname and his Pisan roots: most details come from a 160-word autobiographical sketch written in 1202. He is often assumed to have discovered the so-called Fibonacci sequence, which starts with zero and 1 and is thereafter the sum of the two previous numbers (so 1, 2, 3, 5 and so on). The sequence shows up with astonishing frequency in natural spiral structures such as shells and plant tendrils.
Fibonacci did not, however, discover the sequence it was recorded in Sanskrit at least as far back as 200 BC. Nor does the sequence explain anything about artistic beauty via the so-called golden section, as Keith Devlin reminds us in his new book Finding Fibonacci. The Pisans greatest legacy was to help Europe dump the ancient system of Roman numerals and switch to Hindu-Arabic numbers from 1 to 9 and, perhaps most importantly, 0, which Fibonacci called zephirum after the Arabic ṣifr.........
Roman numerals made multiplication and division extremely cumbersome (try dividing MXCI by LIII); they were no match for the 10-digit positional system invented by the Hindus some time before 700 AD and common in the Arab world. And compared to using, say, an abacus, calculations in Hindu-Arabic numbers also allowed an audit trail, as Devlin points out: An individual sitting in Pisa controlling a network of traders needed to be able to review the financial books on a regular basis.
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Vi Hart's explanation of Sponge Bob's House
I still have the jacket
Since this was probably before cell phone cameras, you probably don't have a picture of the Italian chick's profile.
But since you still have the jacket, how about posting a picture of the Fibonoci jacket.
I would estimate at somewhere between 2-3-5-8-13% of the population...
You could add a nice necklace to go with it...
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And compared to using, say, an abacus, calculations in Hindu-Arabic numbers also allowed an audit trail, as Devlin points out: An individual sitting in Pisa controlling a network of traders needed to be able to review the financial books on a regular basis.
To fill that need, in 1202 Fibonacci (the son of a notary working for Pisan traders) published Liber Abaci, a compendium of Hindu-Arabic arithmetic and its practical applications to trade. The 600-page book introduces the numerals and explains how to use them for basic calculations.
alef (1) + tav (400) + alpha (1) + omega (800) = 1202
;-)
Speaking of introductions and basic calculations,
The Torah begins with the letter bet, and ends with a lamed (in the word Israel). This spells לב lev, heart. Sum total: 32 (bet = 2; lamed = 30)
Now as the numeric value of bet is 2, "bet lamed" can be read as "two lameds", which when placed face-to-face, form a heart.
Explanation here.
The first three letters of the Torah (ברא) are repeated in the second word bara ("created"):
בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ׃
In the beginning created God the heavens and the earth.
...בראשית ברא
This word, bara, has a numeric value of 203 (2 + 200 + 1), which is the 6th Bell number, meaning that in a set containing 6 elements, there are 203 ways to partition the set. B6 = 203
Bell numbers are named for Eric Temple Bell. (Nice touch!)
Bell (בל) = bet lamed = 32 (bet = 2; lamed = 30)
203 is the mirror of 302, which can be read as 30 and 2, or 32, the numeric value of Bell, or its mirror, lev, heart.
In base 32, 203 which is the 6th Bell number (B6) = 6B
And B6 = 358 = Messiah (משיח)
Cf.
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...
God loves His creation. He loves to create. In the beginning, God ♥ the heavens and the earth. "Base 32", based on the heart, is based on 2 - "two lameds". Base 2: yes or no, on or off, open or closed.
The difference between Israel and the rest of the nations is that Israel said "Yes" to the Torah. Israel ישראל (541) + yes כן (70) = Torah תורה (611) ♥
Yes is 1; No is 0. Beis (בית) 2 = the letter bet, which is an open house.
בראשית ב
In the beginning, bet, in the beginning bara...
Thus the Torah begins by stating the obvious, as the first letter *is* the letter bet, and the first three letters are bet resh alef.
The sum of bere + bara = 406, which is the numeric value of the word tav (תו), the last letter of the alef bet. The three letters between the two "baras" - shin yud tav שית - permute to yesh tav, יש ת , "Here is a tav". Now that's pretty clever.
Some of the ancient mathematicians were amazing.
Byte = בית = beit = house, which is 8 bits, 23. 32 x 32 = 1024 = 1 kilobyte
8 = אהב ahav (love v.) = ehav (the command to love).
The 'lost' 23rd letter (mirror of 32) that the Messiah is supposed to bring back with him (the letter that escaped at the breaking of the first set of tablets, but didn't return, as the story goes) would have a numerical value of 1000 (in order following the final tzaddik which is 900).
Binary 1000 = 8; a "kilo" byte is 32 x 32 bytes, and the full spelling of ahav is 529 = 23 x 23.
If you recall the post about the Temple roof (a 135 deg gable based on the word pinah - corner, as in the head of the corner), the roof is a standard 5:12 pitch. 5-12-13 triangle.
The base of that diagram is thus 2 12s, which is another way of expressing two lameds (12 being the ordinal value of the lamed).
You can't make this stuff up.
Using the chaf sofit (500, which is 1000/2)
I ♥ you =
אני ♥ אותך
61 + 32 + 907 = 1000
1000 + [12 x 2] (דויד) = 32 x 32 = ♥ x ♥
:)
bttt
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