Dear All, Viv has often asked me why it is that every meeting that she goes to facilitate has either an odd or a prime number of people in it, making it almost impossible for her to divvy up her group.
Well, I reckon we have Phi to thank for that. *grumble* *self-organisation* *grumble* *grumble* Or maybe I should say, the Fibonacci numbers.... See a simple way of deriving Phi is first to take the Fibonacci number sequence: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89 Then, if you take each Fibonacci number and divide it by the one before you will eventually converge onto Phi. I dunno about you, but is this something we might be able to generalize across practictioners? :) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Rixon PhD Director Anecdote Pty Ltd Skype: AndrewJRixon Mobile: 0400 352 809 Fax: (03) 9383 6274 Email: and...@anecdote.com.au URL: http://www.anecdote.com.au -----Original Message----- From: Harrison Owen [mailto:hho...@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 8:16 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: The Da Vinci Connection --Phi Wendy Wrote: If Phi is as ubiquitous in Nature as Brown suggests, it is perhaps one of the hallmarks of self-organization? I was wondering if we see any instances of Phi in Open Space? Any math fans out there interested in taking a look for it? I'm going to start :-) Wendy --good luck. And since I am one of those mathematically challenged individuals, I leave it all to you and others. H. Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Wendy Farmer-O'Neil Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 4:59 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: The Da Vinci Connection --Phi Interesting that this thread has started. There is something else that the Da Vinci Code brought forward for me--the number Phi ( http://goldennumber.net/ ). If Phi is as ubiquitous in Nature as Brown suggests, it is perhaps one of the hallmarks of self-organization? I was wondering if we see any instances of Phi in Open Space? Any math fans out there interested in taking a look for it? I'm going to start :-) Cheers, Wendy * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
