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Old 05-09-2018, 02:11 AM
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Flower seeds, irrational numbers, and why the golden ratio is much more irrational than pi.

Numberphile strikes again. If someone asks you what these higher mathematical concepts have to do with the real world, this is as good a video as any. If you need another, Mathologer tackles e.
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