On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:40 AM, John Patrick Gerdeman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (You could potentially start the sequence anywhere, e.g at a=5 and b=7, or > over all prime numbers, it > would still be a Fibonacci sequence, though not the one commonly known) > Actually, a series that follows the same rule as the Fibonacci sequence (each member is the sum of the previous two members) but starts somewhere other than 0 and 1 is called a "Lucas sequence", after a mathematician named Édouard Lucas. Put it another way: the Fibonacci sequence is just one of an infinite number of Lucas sequences. Sorry - just a bit of trivia I happened to recall. -- www.fsrtechnologies.com
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