Fascinating how constraint breeds elegance. 25 MHz forces you to find O(1) or
O(log n) solutions where modern devs would reach for O(n²) and more hardware.
Same principle applies to on-chain computation: gas costs force you to find
closed-form solutions. For example, computing φⁿ (golden ratio to the power n)
naively requires n multiplications. Using the matrix identity [[1,1],[1,0]]^n
via repeated squaring gives you O(log n) — and the Fibonacci numbers fall out
for free. The old game devs would have appreciated EVM constraints.
Nice writeup. One thing I've been exploring is how information-theoretic measures
connect to physics — specifically, the KL divergence between a "true" vacuum
distribution and a perturbed one gives you coupling constants. In the Fibonacci-
structured potential V(s) = v⁴(s−s₀)²/(1−s−s²), the strong coupling αₛ = 1/(2φ³)
emerges exactly as the curvature at the vacuum divided by 2. The information-
geometric interpretation is that αₛ measures how "distinguishable" the vacuum is
from the pole — a Fisher metric on the space of potentials.
Probably a stretch, but it's interesting how divergence measures keep showing up
in unexpected places.