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-The '''Fibonacci sequence''' is a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers.  The numbers are known as '''Fibonacci numbers'''.
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-'''Example:'''
-, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 ...
-The Fibonacci numbers were first described by the Sanskrit linguist Pingala around the year 450 BC.  They arose from the study of meters with long and short syllables.
-The first Western mathematician to study this sequence was Leonardo of Pisa, commonly known as [[Fibonacci]], in the consideration of the growth of an idealized rabbit population.
-[[Johannes Kepler]] discovered that the [[limit]] of the ratios between succeeding Fibonacci numbers converges to the [[golden ratio]].  Fibonacci numbers also occur in [[Pascal's triangle]] and the run-time analysis of [[Euclid's Algorithm]].
-== Example of Fibonacci Sequences ==
-* The family trees of honey [[bees]] can be depicted using Fibonacci numbers because unmated females will always hatch male young, while mated females will always hatch female young and the Fibonacci sequence has many practical applications in biology, e.g. in the study of reproductive patterns of animals, in the study of spiraling of flowers, etc.
-===See also===
-[[fibonacci]]
-[[Category:Mathematics]]

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