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Originally Posted by MJA  Dear KiGs,
I have never been able to find real numbers in nature other than the numbers mankind creates; which makes them natural I guess. Could you show me an example of a real number in nature other than manmade ones?
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MJA |
Hallå MJA : )
I'm not exactly sure what your asking because I don't really see the difference between a man made number and a number occurring in nature. Numbers are used in math which refers to logic, and some number sequences find themselves in a lot of different things. The point of that post was to show that yes they are in nature, but that almost every number could be found if you looked hard enough, remember the movie 23! Trailer ->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMp5rW56J8
I mentioned a few number sequences such as Fibonacci and Elliot Waves. Fibonacci is the sequence 0-1-1-2-3-5-8-etc. and it can be found in a bunch of flowers, structure of certain insect colonies, some say shells, trees, pine cones and on and on. Elliot Waves are used to predict economic activity under the idea that human behavior is predictable.. and the whole Elliot wave concept was adapted by many other fields in psychology to explain other behaviors. Blah blah blah.
Oh and don't forget Profpat's 3s and 8s! : )