Beyond 5000 on Instagram: "Long before Fibonacci, Indian scholars had already discovered the same pattern. The earliest clues appear around 200 BCE in the work of Pingala, who studied long and short syllables in Sanskrit poetry. His method of counting poetic patterns produces the numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and so on. Modern scholars later recognized that this matches the Fibonacci sequence. Around the 6th to 8th century CE, the scholar Virahanka explained this pattern more clearly. He wrote that w