What is it about?
We got hundreds of people across Manchester and around the world to grow sunflowers, then counted the numbers of spirals their seedheads had. We found Fibonacci numbers as is well established, but we also found other patterns.
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Why is it important?
This will make it easier to distinguish different potential explanations of why Fibonacci numbers appear.
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This page is a summary of: Novel Fibonacci and non-Fibonacci structure in the sunflower: results of a citizen science experiment, Royal Society Open Science, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160091.
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