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Re: Historical Sound Change & Numbers Puzzle

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 1:40
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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Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...>