FIBONACCI NUMBERS
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Fibonacci Numbers Leonardo Bonacci known as Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician, born around 1176 considered to be the most talented Western mathematician of the middle ages. Fibonacci travelled extensively around the Mediterranean coast, meeting with many merchants and learning of their systems of doing arithmetic. Fibonacci popularised the Hindu-Arabic numerical system to the western world primarily through his composition in 1202 of Liber Abaci(Book of Calculation). He solved a problem involving the growth of a population of rabbits based on idealised assumptions. The solution generation by generation was a sequence of numbers later known as Fibonacci numbers. Fibonacci considers the growth of an idealised (biologically unrealistic), rabbit population, assuming that a newly born pair of rabbits, one male, one female are put in a field, rabbits are made to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits, r...