Re: Historical Sound Change & Numbers Puzzle

In a message dated 3/12/2007 7:27:46 PM Central Daylight Time,
leon_math@YAHOO.COM writes:


>   <<
>   And are the
>   names for the numbers taken just out of thin air or do they have some
>   source?
>   >>
>
>   It's the old Fibonacci Series, familiar to any mathematics buff (like
> me). Have you noticed that each number is the sum of the previous two  numbers?
> Take a look at http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html
>
>   -Leon
>
But where do the the names of the numbers come from?

stevo

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