# Streaks and Generalized Fibonacci Sequences

by Shahla Ahdout, Sheldon Rothman, and Helen Strassberg

This article originally appeared in:
College Mathematics Journal
May, 2006

Subject classification(s): Discrete Mathematics | Combinatorics | Numbers and Computation | Patterns and Sequences | Fibonacci Sequence
Applicable Course(s): 2.6 Math Liberal Arts | 2.7 Finite Math | 3.7 Discrete Math | 4.4 Combinatorics | 6.1 Probability & Statistics

It is shown that the number of $$n$$-strings that contain a $$2$$-streak involves the Fibonacci numbers, and that this can be generalized to $$k$$-streaks.

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