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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:41:18 -0500 From: Alex Bogomolny Dear Enuf: Well, it's the famous Fibonacci sequence. One reason it's famous is that appears in so many often unexpected place and has so many different and curious properties that numerous chapters have been written about it. Named after Leonardo of Pisa son of Bonacci who described it in 1202 in his "Liber abaci". The sequence is intimately related to the golden ratio t
(I'll write t instead of ususal tau.) t = (1+ If fn is the n-th Fibonacci number so that f0=0, f1=1, f2=1, f3=2, f4=3, ... and thus fn+1 = fn + fn-1, then fn = (tn - (1-t)n)/ The formula itself is remarkable. Writing it explicitly you may wonder how such an apparently irrational expression may lead to an integer number. I'll list a few properties of the sequence:
You may be curious to look into the following books (check my Book store for details):
On Internet look into: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/tocs/golden.high.html or just run a search on the "Fibonacci Sequence" - results are sure to be overwhelming. Best regards,
Copyright © 1996-2008 Alexander Bogomolny
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