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    The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the previous two, starting with 0 and 1. Leonardo Fibonacci first studied this sequence in the 12th century. The ratios of successive Fibonacci numbers approach the golden ratio, around 1.618, as the sequence progresses, which demonstrates an interesting property of the sequence.

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    The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the previous two, starting with 0 and 1. Leonardo Fibonacci first studied this sequence in the 12th century. The ratios of successive Fibonacci numbers approach the golden ratio, around 1.618, as the sequence progresses, which demonstrates an interesting property of the sequence.

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    FIBONACCI SEQUENCE

    If we have a sequence of numbers such as 2, 4, 6, 8, ... it is called an arithmetic


    series . Can you determine the rule to get from one number in the series to the
    next?  ??? add 2 

    A sequence of numbers such as 2, 4, 8, 16, ... it is called a geometric series . What is


    the rule to get from one number to the next in this series?  ??? multiply by 2 

    Leonardo Fibonacci, who was born in the 12th century, studied a sequence of
    numbers with a different type of rule for determining the next number in a sequence.
    He began the sequence with 0,1, ... and then calculated each successive number from
    the sum of the previous two.
    This sequence of numbers is called the Fibonacci Numbers or Fibonacci Sequence.
    The Fibonacci numbers are interesting in that they occur throughout both nature and
    art. Especially of interest is what occurs when we look at the ratios of successive
    numbers.

    1. First, calculate the first 20 numbers in the Fibonacci sequence. Remember that the
    formula to find the nth term of the sequence (denoted by F[n]) is F[n-1] + F[n-
    2].  Check your answer here. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610,
    987,  1597, 2584, 4181 

    2. Next, look at the ratios found by F[n]/F[n-1]. We'll get you started.
    1/1 = 1
    2/1 = 2
    3/2 = 1.5
    5/3 = 1.666...
    8/5 = 1.6

    Calculate the ratios using all of the Fibonacci numbers you calculated above. What do
    you notice happens to this ratio as n increases? Does these ratios seem to be
    converging to any particular number? Graph the ratios and see what they look like.
    Check your ratios and graph here.

    3. Now, consider the ratios found by F[n-1]/F[n], that is the reciprocals of the ratios in
    exercise 2. above. Graph these results. What do you find? What value do you suspect
    these ratios are converging to? What does this tell you is a property of the ratios we
    have found?

    Continue on to the next page.

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