An example of a linear sequence. A list of numbers or diagrams that are in a particular order is called a sequence close sequenceA sequence is a set of numbers that follow a certain rule. For example, ...

A pattern or a sequence is a set of numbers that are connected in some way. All sequences have a rule. For example, sometimes the numbers might count on by 5 each time, other times they might be ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

As soon as people leave school, many leave maths behind happily. So much of our daily maths problems are tackled with the help of computers anyway- working out the total cost of your shopping, how ...

What do pine cones and paintings have in common? A 13th-century Italian mathematician named Leonardo of Pisa. Better known by his pen name, Fibonacci, he came up with a number sequence that keeps ...

The Plant Cell, Vol. 6, No. 12 (Dec., 1994), pp. 1877-1887 (11 pages) The homeobox of the knotted1 (kn1) gene was used to isolate 12 related sequences in maize. The homeodomains encoded by the ...