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Itanium® Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles
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Itanium® Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles

by James S. Evans - Lawrence University, Gregory L. Trimper - viika
April 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 13m
English
Pearson
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10.7. Fibonacci Numbers

Mathematical modeling is not a recent development, as Knuth makes plain in retelling the inquiry, first written by Fibonacci in the year 1202, “How many pairs of rabbits can be produced from a single pair in a year's time?” If the rabbits never die, then the population may grow in each reproductive generation to levels proportional to the integer sequence

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, …

known as the Fibonacci numbers. Centuries later the release of European rabbits in Australia, in the absence of effective predation, indeed led to a runaway population. Modern population biologists of course consider in their mathematical models such additional factors as food supply, predation, and death.

How can the sequence of Fibonacci ...

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