Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

After dividing 1 by 999-quattuordecillion (a number that’s 48 integers long), you get the Fibonacci sequence presented in neat, 24-digit strings. Here’s why that happens. As a quick refresher, the ...

The spiral of an artichokes leaves can be described by the Fibonacci Sequence. This sequence is a simple mathematical pattern where each successive number in the sequence is equal to the sum of the ...

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 ...

Having stumbled upon Project Euler sometime ago and solving the first problem, this disco dancer from the Age of Aquarius thought it was time to tackle problem two, which states: Each new term in the ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...