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Fibonacci Number: Jump To Navigation Jump To Search Fibonacci Sequence (Ensemble)

Fibonacci numbers form a sequence where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, starting with 0 and 1. The beginning of the Fibonacci sequence is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. Fibonacci numbers are closely related to the golden ratio and appear unexpectedly often in mathematics and natural settings like branching in trees. They are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, who introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics in his 1202 book Liber Abaci.

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Fibonacci Number: Jump To Navigation Jump To Search Fibonacci Sequence (Ensemble)

Fibonacci numbers form a sequence where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, starting with 0 and 1. The beginning of the Fibonacci sequence is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. Fibonacci numbers are closely related to the golden ratio and appear unexpectedly often in mathematics and natural settings like branching in trees. They are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, who introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics in his 1202 book Liber Abaci.

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Fibonacci number

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"Fibonacci Sequence" redirects here. For the chamber ensemble, see Fibonacci Sequence (ensemble).

A tiling with squares whose side lengths are successive Fibonacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and 21.
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn form a sequence, called the Fibonacci
sequence, such that each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1. That is, [1]

and

for n > 1.
One has F2 = 1. In some books, and particularly in old ones, F0, the "0" is omitted, and the Fibonacci
sequence starts with F1 = F2 = 1.[2][3] The beginning of the sequence is thus:

[4]

The Fibonacci spiral: an approximation of the golden spiral created by drawing circular arcs connecting
the opposite corners of squares in the Fibonacci tiling; [5] (see preceding image)
Fibonacci numbers are strongly related to the golden ratio: Binet's formula expresses the nth Fibonacci
number in terms of n and the golden ratio, and implies that the ratio of two consecutive Fibonacci
numbers tends to the golden ratio as n increases.
Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, later known as Fibonacci.
They appear to have first arisen as early as 200 BC in work by Pingala on enumerating possible
patterns of poetry formed from syllables of two lengths. In his 1202 book Liber Abaci, Fibonacci
introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics, [6] although the sequence had been
described earlier in Indian mathematics.[7][8][9]
Fibonacci numbers appear unexpectedly often in mathematics, so much so that there is an entire journal
dedicated to their study, the Fibonacci Quarterly. Applications of Fibonacci numbers include computer
algorithms such as the Fibonacci search technique and the Fibonacci heap data structure, and graphs
called Fibonacci cubes used for interconnecting parallel and distributed systems.
They also appear in biological settings, such as branching in trees, the arrangement of leaves on a stem,
the fruit sprouts of a pineapple, the flowering of an artichoke, an uncurling fern and the arrangement of
a pine cone's bracts.

Fibonacci numbers are also closely related to Lucas numbers in that they form a complementary

pair of Lucas sequences and . Lucas numbers are also intimately connected with the golden
ratio.

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