All 18 Uses
sequence
in
The Da Vinci Code
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- "Captain," Sophie said, her tone dangerously defiant, "the sequence of numbers you have in your hand happens to be one of the most famous mathematical progressions in history."†
Chpt 11-12 *sequence = arranged in a specific order
- This is the Fibonacci sequence," she declared, nodding toward the piece of paper in Fache's hand.†
Chpt 11-12
- Obviously there can be no coincidence that all of the numbers Saunière wrote on the floor belong to Fibonacci's famous sequence.†
Chpt 11-12
- The Fibonacci sequence?†
Chpt 19-20
- The symbolism of the clues meshed too perfectly—the pentacle, The Vitruvian Man, Da Vinci, the goddess, and even the Fibonacci sequence.†
Chpt 19-20
- And yet they're all part of the Fibonacci sequence.†
Chpt 19-20
- I was more interested in the mathematics of it—the Divine Proportion, PHI, Fibonacci sequences, that sort of thing.†
Chpt 19-20
- As Langdon loaded his slide projector, he explained that the number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence—a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equaled the next term, but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching the number 1.618—PHI!†
Chpt 19-20sequence = arranged in a specific order
- "The scrambled Fibonacci sequence is a clue," Langdon said, taking the printout.†
Chpt 19-20
- He wrote the sequence out of order to tell us to apply the same concept to the text.†
Chpt 19-20
- It had been Sophie who spotted the Fibonacci sequence, and, no doubt, Sophie who, if given a little more time, would have deciphered the message with no help from Langdon.†
Chpt 21-22
- When Sophie had first seen the scrambled Fibonacci sequence on the parquet, she had assumed its sole purpose was to encourage DCPJ to call in their cryptographers and get Sophie involved.†
Chpt 43-44
- Later, she realized the numbers were also a clue as to how to decipher the other lines—a sequence out of order...a numeric anagram.†
Chpt 43-44
- It's far too coincidental that this supposedly random account number could be rearranged to form the Fibonacci sequence.†
Chpt 43-44
- Earlier, Sophie had rearranged this account number into the Fibonacci sequence.†
Chpt 43-44
- The Fibonacci sequence.†
Chpt 43-44
- 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21 When the Fibonacci sequence was melded into a single ten-digit number, it became virtually unrecognizable.†
Chpt 43-44
- When you rotate them to their proper sequence, the tumblers inside align, and the entire cylinder slides apart.†
Chpt 47-48
Definitions:
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(1)
(sequence) a set of things arranged or happening in a specific order -- often chronological order
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)