Leonardo da Vinci's use of the Fibonacci Sequence in 'La Gioconda' (Mona Lisa). Picture: Getty Images / Classic FM The Fibonacci Sequence in music The Fibonacci Sequence plays a big part in Western ...

Fibonacci sequence explained The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two that precede it. Starting at 0 and 1, the first 10 numbers of the sequence ...

In 1611, Johannes Kepler commented on the relationship between the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, though he didn't pursue this connection extensively. 4 It wasn't until the 19th century ...

In the West, however, it would take a few more centuries for the sequence to turn up – and when it did, it wasn’t as a result of simple addition. In fact, it had more to do with multiplication ...

Other key Fibonacci retracement levels include 23.6%, which results from dividing a Fibonacci number by the integer three places to the right, and 76.4%, which is found by subtracting 23.6 from 100.

As the terms in a Fibonacci sequence get larger, the ratio of each term to the one preceding it gets closer and closer to the golden ratio – approximated to 1.61803 by the first few places in ...