Re: Fibonacci program

"Peter Lacey" <lacey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Judson McClendon wrote:
>> 1 (e.g. 1,1,2,3,5,8, ...).
>>
>> The Fibonacci Series is one of those Gee Whiz numbers that turn up in
>> many surprising and unexpected places, like e, pi and phi (Golden Ratio
>> = [sqrt{5} + 1] / 2). The number of seeds in the spirals of sunflower
>> heads are often consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
>
> I have demonstrated that Pascal's triangle shows up in an utterly
> unexpected and enjoyable context - but as it's OT I'll not describe it
> here: anyone that wishes to find out can certainly contact me at my
> e-mail address as given.


Post it, by all means. Mathematics is closely related to programming, so
this stuff isn't very OT. Certainly less so than much of the content posted
here. :-)
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