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   Becca said, over 4 years ago

   For those who don’t know… Fibonacci Series: The first number of the sequence is 0, the second number is 1, and each subsequent number is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers of the sequence itself, yielding the sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.
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   treblemaker said, over 4 years ago

   Why’s Peter complaining? He gets his three squares a day.
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   tiger1tt said, over 4 years ago

   neat method of informing d masses …i for one did not catch d pun until i read sappha 1958 comment…i have been enriched
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   kfaatz925 said, over 4 years ago

   Only squares, treblemaker? In Peter’s case I’d have said cubes.
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   m_ortal said, over 4 years ago

   13, 21…
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   Dypak said, over 4 years ago

   I always appreciate how Amend expects us to know and understand the joke, and doesnt have to explain it. The ‘Fibonachos’ punchline was great though! Amend gives his readers credit for being smart enough to get his jokes. Laugh, a search for fibonacho’s on Wiki actually refers you to fibonaci!

   In the book/movie, “The Phantom Tollbooth” there is a well done sequance on the Fibonaci series. Tiger itt mentioned informing the masses, getting kids to read that book would do it. Or at least see the movie.
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   Mowgli-Chiara said, over 4 years ago

   Thanks for made my brain to work on a Sunday
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   Boxknight_Jace said, over 4 years ago

   Dypak, The Phantom Tollbooth is one of the best novels out there. Everyone should read it as a kid and then again as an adult.
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   Hugh B. Hayve said, over 4 years ago

   I guess when they’re older they’ll be playing Fibeernacci.
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    Geekologist said, over 4 years ago

    Whats sad is I didn’t know what “Fibonachos” are till I read the comments…
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    bigmitchperez said, over 4 years ago

    luckily i play video games ,like “the da vinci code”,otherwise i may seem undereducated!
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    LateToTheGame said, over 4 years ago

    Hugh, awesome!!! Though I imagine at whatever age, Jason and Marcus would barely be able to hold a single draught, at most.
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    cwreenactor said, over 4 years ago

    Arrrrgggghhhhh!!!!
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    jOhndrAkE (vowelsUP,consonantsdown): Vulcan: Live long and prosper. Romulan: Live strong and dominate. said, over 4 years ago

    I am fairly sure that the fibonacc1 numbers do not start with 0:

    1,1,2,3,5,8,13,…

    I believe that the wikipedia entry is in error. I am 99% sure of this but I could be 100% wrong. I will check.

    When I first encountered this sequence it was presented this way:

    Fibonacci had one pair of baby rabbits. At the end of two months they were still too young to mate. At the end of the third month the orginal pair had two babies. At the end of the fourth month the original pair had another set while the first litter were too young. And so it went. If he started with 0 pair this would not work.

    The Fibonacci numbers occur in all sorts of areas of mathematics.

    Yup, in “An Introduction to Number Theory” , Edward Burger states that the Fibonacci series starts 1,1.
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    Michael Farren said, over 4 years ago

    Johndrake: they’re talking about the Alternative Minimal Fibonacci series: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
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