Da Vinci Code help?
I need help on the Fibonacci code at the beggining of the book. It says that the way you rearrange the numbers determines how you arrange the letters, but I can't seem to find a correlation. Can someone please help me to figure out why the letters go where they should?
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In mathematics, Fibonacci coding is a universal code which encodes positive integers into binary code words. All tokens end with "11" and have no "11" before the end. The code begins as follows:
1 11
2 011
3 0011
4 1011
5 00011
6 10011
7 01011
8 000011
9 100011
10 010011
11 001011
12 101011
The Fibonacci code is closely related to Fibonacci representation, a positional numeral system sometimes used by mathematicians. The Fibonacci code for a particular integer is exactly that of the integer's Fibonacci representation, except with the order of its digits reversed and an additional "1" appended to the end.
To encode an integer X:
1. Find the largest Fibonacci number equal to or less than X; subtract this number from X, keeping track of the remainder.
2. If the number we subtracted was the Nth unique Fibonacci number, put a one in the Nth digit of our output.
3. Repeat the previous steps, substituting our remainder for X, until we reach a remainder of 0.
4. Place a one after the last naturally-occurring one in our output.
To decode a token in the code, remove the last "1", assign the remaining bits the values 1,2,3,5,8,13... (the Fibonacci numbers), and add the "1" bits.
the fibonacci code was to get Sophie's attention and to get Fache to call in a cryptologist It's a simple code. 1+1=2 1+2=3 2+3=5 3+5=8 8+5=13 ... hence the code is 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 but it the book it was an anigram...13 3 21 1 1 8 5 this then was applied to the words O Draconian Devil and Oh lame saint to produce...Lenardo Di Vinci The Mona Lisa
ok, your question isnt very clear, but i will try to answer the question as best as i can. the fibonacci number sequence was one of the two keys that unlocked the cryptograph sophie's grandfather left her. but anyway, the fibonacci sequence has nothing to do with the cryptograph except for the fact that is was one of the two keys to the cryptograph. (the second key was a real key that sophie's grandfather left her before he died) i dont want to give away the next part because i dont know if you have got to the answer to the cryptograph, but overall, the fibonacci code has nothing to do with the answer to the cryptograph.
The Fibbonaci was scrambled, so Langdon knew that the letters were scrambled, too. That's all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology