Gregory Coxson, recently retired faculty member at the US Naval Academy's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department -- and a long-time friend, enjoys discovering and sharing mathy poems -- some of them his own, Recently he sent me the following Fib.
A Fib by Gregory Coxson
I
You
We all
Have built-in
Math abilities
We’re captivated by puzzles
Daily life is full of numbers and calculations.
The syllable counts in the lines of a Fib follow the Fibonacci numbers -- a sequence that begins with 1 and 1 and then each subsequent listing is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, . . . .
Previous inclusion of Fibs in this blog may be found at this link -- and previous connections with Gregory Coxson are linked here.
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