The Fibonacci Sequence
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In this clip, Charlie helps Don to find the terrorist behind the recreations by breaking the codes, which contain statistics of the wrecks occurred in the past. The art of breaking codes by analyzing patterns is part of a wider mathematical area called Cryptography.

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