From Fibonacci Sequence to the Golden Ratio

We consider the well-known characterization of the Golden ratio as limit of the ratio of consecutive terms of the Fibonacci sequence, and we give an explanation of this property in the framework of the Difference Equations Theory. We show that the Golden ratio coincides with this limit not because i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alberto Fiorenza, Giovanni Vincenzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/204674