Fibonacci Numbers
The Fibonacci numbers are the archetype of a linear, homogeneous recurrence relation with constant coefficients (see below). They are defined using the linear recurrence relation
with seed values:
Explicitly, recurrence yields the equations:
etc.
We obtain the sequence of Fibonacci numbers which begins:
- 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ...
It can be solved by methods described below yielding the closed-form expression which involve powers of the two roots of the characteristic polynomial t2 = t + 1; the generating function of the sequence is the rational function
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