Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sequence of numbers, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, … , in which each successive number is equal to the sum of the two preceding numbers.
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- noun mathematics A sequence of
numbers such that each number is thesum of the preceding two numbers
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- noun a sequence of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two preceding numbers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Leonardo Fibonacci, (died c. 1250), Italian mathematician.]
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