Fibonacci Sequence in Hurricane Rita It's not difficult to see the pattern in Hurricane Rita as it approached the Louisiana and Texas shore on Sept. 23, 2005.

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 look like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 ...

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 ...