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    A certain illiterate Spanish conquistador was interested in them. According to mythology a girl who was in love supposedly once turned into one, although a poem by a Roman poet stated she actually turned into something much similar. What are they, who was the conquistador, and the poet, and how is a mathematical sequence incorporated with them?

    Question #68708. Asked by peasypod. (Jul 23 06 7:34 PM)


    lanfranco

    		I'd say that the conquistador was Pizarro, who was interested in the sunflower. The myth concerns Clytie, who may have turned into a sunflower or a heliotrope, depending on how you interpret Ovid.

    The right spirals in a sunflower are successive Fibonacci numbers:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helianthus_annuus

    Jul 23 06, 7:48 PM
    peasypod

    		Nice One Frankie. I found a recipe for Minestra di Girasole which inspired this one. Yup, Pizarro and his "rubrica" always intriques me, probably why mine is similar...

    Jul 23 06, 8:04 PM

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