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A Parent of Binet's Formula?

by B. Sury (Indian Statistical Institute)

This article originally appeared in:
Mathematics Magazine
October, 2004

Subject classification(s): Numbers and Computation | Patterns and Sequences | Fibonacci Sequence
Applicable Course(s): 4.3 Number Theory

The author discusses an alternate way of developing Binet`s formula. See also a follow-up letter from Art Benjamin in Mathematics Magazine, Volume 78, No. 2, page 97.


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