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Published on: August 3, 2022
Optimal hash arrangement of tentacles in jellyfish
Takuya Okabe1, Jin Yoshimura1,2,3,4
1Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan.
Abstract:
At first glance, the trailing tentacles of a jellyfish appear to be randomly arranged. However, close examination of medusae has revealed that the arrangement and developmental order of the tentacles obey a mathematical rule. Here, we show that medusa jellyfish adopt the best strategy to achieve the most uniform distribution of a variable number of tentacles. The observed order of tentacles is a real-world example of an optimal hashing algorithm known as Fibonacci hashing in computer science.
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