Fibonacci series

Fibonacci series
Fibonacci series [fē΄bə nä′chē]
n.
after L. Fibonacci, 13th-c. It. mathematician, who developed it
a sequence of integers in which each integer (Fibonacci number) after the second is the sum of the two preceding integers; specif., the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, . . .

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