Sunday, December 28, 2008

Fibonacci Numbers

In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of numbers named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci (a contraction of filius Bonaccio, "son of Bonaccio"). Fibonacci's 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics, although the sequence had been previously described in Indian mathematics.

The first number of the That is, after two starting values, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The first Fibonacci numbers (sequence A000045 in OEIS), also denoted as Fn, for n = 0, 1, 2, … ,20 are:

F0F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8F9F10F11F12F13F14F15F16F17F18F19F20
011235813213455891442333776109871597258441816765

 

Every 3rd number of the sequence is even and more generally, every kth number of the sequence is a multiple of Fk.

The sequence extended to negative index n satisfies Fn = Fn−1 + Fn−2 for all integers n, and F−n = (−1)n+1Fn:

sequence is 0, the second number is 1, and each subsequent number is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers of the sequence itself, yielding the sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc. In mathematical terms, it is defined by the following recurrence relation

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