👉 Petalage is a term used in mathematics and computer science to describe the number of times an element must be multiplied by itself before it becomes greater than or equal to another given element. For example, in the Fibonacci sequence, the first two elements are 1 and 1, so each subsequent element is obtained from the previous one by multiplying it by a constant factor (usually 0.95). If we say that the number of times an element must be multiplied by itself before it becomes