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Fibonacci Numbers -Journal #17

Fibonacci numbers

The Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following Integer Sequence:



0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144

By definition, the first  two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two.

In mathematical terms, the sequence Fn of Fibonacci numbers is defined as follow:

F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2)


with seed values


F(0) = 0  ,  F(1) = 1



A Fibonacci spiral created by drawing circular arcs connecting the opposite corners of squares in the Fibonacci tiling; this one uses squares of sizes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and 34.


Fibonacci considers the growth of an idealized (biologically unrealistic) rabbit population, assuming that: a newly born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field; rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits; rabbits never die and a mating pair always produces one new pair (one male, one female) every month from the second month on. The puzzle that Fibonacci posed was: how many pairs will there be in one year?

          

           At the end of the first month, they mate, but there is still only 1 pair.

           At the end of the second month the female produces a new pair, so now there are 2 pairs of rabbits in the field.
·        At the end of the third month, the original female produces a second pair, making 3 pairs in all in the field.
·        At the end of the fourth month, the original female has produced yet another new pair, the female born two months ago produces her first pair also, making 5 pairs
    
      At the end of the nth month, the number of pairs of rabbits is equal to the number of new pairs (which is the number of pairs in month n − 2) plus the number of pairs alive last month (n − 1). This is the nth Fibonacci number.





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