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The great Roger Penrose is approaching his 90th
birthday. He was asked
recently if he was looking forward to this and he
replied saying that he
was not and that he thought his 89th birthday had
been a far more
significant milestone as it is a Fibonacci number,
and was likely to be
the
last Fibonacci number he would reach in his
lifetime.
He's
right - we should take note of these and have a bit
of extra celebration
on our 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 13th, 21st, 34th,
55th and 89th
birthdays. We should also mark our 6th (perfect and
factorial number),
24th (factorial) and 28th (perfect) birthdays. It
might be overdoing it
to also mark triangular numbers, squares and cubes
unless you're really
keen on special birthdays. This represents a whole
new opportunity for
the greetings card industry, who will have to find a
rhyme for
'Fibonacci'.
Clerihew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew
[hippo, Nov 03 2020]
[link]
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If you switched over to months old instead of years
old, you would get a lot more of everything. |
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[kdf] - you're right - the trite poem for someone's
89th birthday card could therefore read:
"Happy Birthday, it's your twelfth Fibonacci,
That means you're nearly as old as Liberace!"
[xenzag] That might be too much - but how about a
special birthday to mark 31 years and 259 days (and
about 1 and three-quarter hours)? - that's a billion
seconds since your birth. |
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When you reach 89 Fibonacci,
It’s time to get out the Hitachi,
It can dig a big hole,
For your body and soul,
While someone plays out Liberace. |
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For your 34th birthday:
”It’s time for a
burst of mariachi
’cos you’ve hit your tenth
Fibonacci!” |
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If it's possible to have Unbirthdays - and it clearly is a thing, so yes - then it must be possible to also have imaginary birthdays, though these are probably limited to scientists, engineers and mathematicians ... |
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I wonder what happened to Archie,
Who was cashiered out in Karachi,
... |
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He was aided by old Dennis Bloodnok,
Who keeps all his cash in a bedsock ... |
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There was a young man from Karachi
Who dressed
himself up in Versace
When they asked him
why
He'd pose, and would cry:
"Because it's my
ninth Fibonacci*!"
*[i.e. 21 years old] |
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I would have brought gifts monetary,
But money does not grow on a tree.
No longer your age has identity
Was easy when you were two, one, or three
But after two years of maturity,
Yes, now it's your fourth Fibonacci |
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Surely the first number in the sequence should be called
Fibonacco? |
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A bottlle of prossecco
for your newborn fibbonnacco |
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I just thought of a small problem: both the 1st AND 2nd
Fibonacci numbers are "1". So, do you celebrate twice, or
just get twice as many gifts in the one celebration (or do
you not care, because you're only 1 year old)? |
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I think the first number is actually 0 (so the series
goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21) but I take your
point. I think you’d have to have two simultaneous
celebrations on your first birthday |
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Nope, the ZERO-TH number is "0". (Comes from the
analytical form, Binet's formula.) |
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Ah, right - unfortunately that makes all the
numbering in my poetry (above) wrong |
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"It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth zeroth of two ...
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No, doesn't quite work somehow... |
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There is a difference between -the- nth Fibonacci number and -one's- nth Ffibonnaccchi number |
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So... you people start rhyming Fibonacci, and you take all the good ones, and so I'm stuck with Friggin Nazi, and i can't fit it into a poem without looking like an asshole, and I shouldn't have even said anything, and I hope you're all happy now. |
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In a year and some change I will have been on this
site 20 years. |
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My tan this summer was all splotchy.
I burned myself with a hibachi. |
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Semi-rhymes can keep this low-key.
Does anybody want some gnocchi? |
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//In a year and some change I will have been on this
site 20 years.// - newbie!
A youngish Italian-Apache
Looked sad as he
cried
"Mi dispiace!"
"I've forgotten your birthday"
"I do hope it's OK"
"'cos I know it's your
sixth Fibonacci!" |
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A chiefly gift, tied up with ribbon:
Achieving now your seventh Fibonn-
-acci day; your age is
increasing in stages
of geometrical precision |
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Next, Fibonacci Haiku ... |
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// I'm stuck with Friggin Nazi, and i can't fit it into a poem without looking like an asshole, // |
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You really shouldn't be at all concerned about that, you looked like an asshole already. It's not going to make any difference at all. |
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// and I shouldn't have even said anything, and I hope you're all happy now. // |
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No, because we still haven't heard the poem, with or without Fascist elements. |
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You could always go for something of a Mussolini theme rather than German. |
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Wait, I could rhyme Fibonacci with flipp'n Yahtzee and lose friggin nazi for a thickened pot, see? |
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You could try making it a musical, like "Springtime
For Hitler." It would be a smash hit. |
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I once met that nice Dr Fauci
who quickly said
"Arrivederci!"
"I would love to chat"
"about
this and that"
"but it's my twelfth Fibonacci!" |
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"but today is my twelfth Fibonacci ! " scans somewhat better ... the extra syllable makes all the difference. |
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Yes, you’re right. Eight or nine syllables are
allowed for lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick but as I
chose nine syllables for lines 1 and 2, I should have
stuck with that for line 5. It does kind of work if
you emphasise the word “But”. |
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To chainge the stress in the vocalization, you'd probably be best adding a hyphen, as in "but - it's my twelfth Fibonacci ! " |
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[xenzag]/[hippo] I'm hearing that with a mariachi accompaniment... |
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The night my parents conceived me,
They partied with dirty zero fibonacci, |
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9 months later, on mothers pain, I was free
They celebrated again, with the first one out, fibonacci |
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And so begins the long wait for cake and tea
When I'll get my very own first fibonacci |
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All Apaches from Wenatchee
count their days in Fibonacci |
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Thanks for helping make sense of birthdays. They are far
more deserving of recognition than other momentous days
like, say, Halloween -- which no one really explains well. |
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//which no one really explains well//
That's because it is inexplicable (like most religious/pseudo-
religious celebrations...). |
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//..nobody should ever need a REASON to throw a party..// |
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Here here! Birthdays are the epitome of pointlessness, so
party hearty! |
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Incidentally, a question for USA-based Halfbakers: is
the Limerick verse form widely used there? |
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In Limerick? I don't think so. But not sure why Americans would know that more than Irish people. |
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No, I meant "there" referring to the USA - i.e. are
limericks a familiar form of nonsense poetry in the
USA? I think probably not, judging by your answer... |
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// especially in the town of Nantucket // |
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Is that the place where they carry their food in a bucket ? |
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// I'm not in America! // |
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Over three hundred million people probably envy you ... |
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There was a man not from Nantucket
With numbers he was just the ticket.
His name, as you see,
was Fibonacci,
He would take the last two and add up it. |
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[pocmloc] Very good! For that, you earn your own
Clerihew (see link):
Halfbaker [pocmloc]
Annotates with skill like Mr Spock
Where he is
no one can say
But we're pretty sure he's not in
the USA |
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Thank you good [hippo]
your poem is uptempo
Your contributions here are always fine
And you even introduce us to new forms of rhyme. |
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I think [8th of 7]
Lives in a bunker in
Devon
Counting occurrences of "H****r"
And
carving wood, being a whittler. |
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