Re: Fibonacci program

> They laughed at Columbus,

The thing about Columbus is that he was wrong. His claim was that the
world was 17,000 miles around when it had been known since 500BC or so
that it was 24,000 miles, and Ptolomy's Geographica was based on 24,000
miles.

Columbus never admitted he was wrong and always maintained that he had
been to South East Asian lands, and that 17,000 miles was the correct
figure. He never thought of where he had been as new continents, there
wasn't room in his 'world' to have them.

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