Golden spirals everywhere?

• John Adam ^[1]
  1. [1] Old Dominion University

     Old Dominion University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 63, Nº. 1, 2025, págs. 76-76
• Idioma: inglés
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  • There are many different types of spirals1; these include Archimedean, hyperbolic, and logarithmic (or equiangular) spirals. I suspect that nearly everyone has heard of the “golden ratio,” the Fibonacci sequence, and the related golden rectangles and golden spirals (often referred to in a botanical context, especially in connection with the arrangement of seeds in sunflower heads).