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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Check this out. This came in on my ISGEM
list, which is a group of wonderful ethnomathematicians. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The Fibonacci series is essentially a
spiral, so when you visualize the words of the poems the way they would have to
look, and then spin them, you get something that looks like a galaxy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am imagining this in Diné Bizaad.
It would also be good as Fibonacci poems of sounds, an actualization of what
Jess Tauber was talking about the other day, but from a different perspective. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Fibonacci poetry</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This
isn't exactly ethnomathematical, but….</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A
blending of poetry structure and mathematics: the "Fib" = poems with
line-lengths of the Fibonacci sequence.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>See:</span></font>
<a
href="http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/04/i_love_strict_p.html"><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/04/i_love_strict_p.html</span></font></a>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Trying
writing some yourself!</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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