Put simply, the Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers which begins with 1 and 1. From there, you add the previous two numbers in the sequence together, to get the next number.

Starting to see a pattern? These are all numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence: 3, 5, 8, 13. The Fibonacci Sequence can be seen on a piano keyboard. Picture: Classic FM Who used the Fibonacci Sequence?

Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathematicians were surprised to find it in the answer to a variation of the pick-up sticks problem⁠—a nearly two ...

In the West, however, it would take a few more centuries for the sequence to turn up – and when it did, it wasn’t as a result of simple addition. In fact, it had more to do with multiplication ...