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NPL-L33-001

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Our new machine is to start arriving on Monday. I am hoping to do something about 'chemical embryology'. In particular I think I can account for the appearance of Fibonacci numbers in connection with fir-cones.

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Monday is 12th February 1951.

Quoted in Hodges p437, letter to M Woodger February 1951. This letter is in the NPL archives and there is an image at the Turing archive thingy

Jonathan Swinton 30/06/02

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