Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci, introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe in 1202. His famous number sequence began as a simple rabbit puzzle. Centuries later, this sequence gained fame for its ...

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A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

When Fibonacci introduced what would become an eponymous sequence, he did so using rabbits as an analogy. Breeding pairs of rabbits are able to multiply within their ranks infinitely. Unfortunately, ...

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Fibonacci sequences are sequences of numbers whose first two elements are 0, 1, and such that, starting from the third number, every element of the sequence is the sum of the previous two. They are of ...