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- From: mxh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Martin Hofmann)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Reciprocals of Fibonaccis
- Message-ID: <Bvuz6K.33p@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Oct 92 14:35:07 GMT
- References: <1992Oct08.195919.81736@Cookie.secapl.com>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
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- In article <1992Oct08.195919.81736@Cookie.secapl.com>, frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams) writes:
- > This is a problem I've worked on off and on for several years, without
- >getting much of anywhere:
- >
- >What is the sum of the reciprocals of the positive Fibonacci numbers? (That
- >is, Sum(n>0, 1/F_n).)
-
- Something that might help is the "closed form expression" for F_n
-
- 1 n g -n
- F_n = ----- g + ----- g
- 1+g 1+g
-
- where g is the golden ratio, i.e. 1/2 * (1+sqrt(5)). You can prove that by putting
- F_n:=alpha^n cancelling and solving for alpha.
-
- Martin Hofmann, Dept of Comp Sci, Univ. of Edinburgh
-