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Question: What is a Fibonacci Sequence ?

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The Fibonacci sequence is the set of numbers 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21……………. In which each number from the third onwards is obtained by adding the previous two. For example, 5 = 2 + 3 while 21 = 8 + 13.

Fibonacci (1180 - 1250) was an Italian mathematician who is said to have introduced the sequence in connection with a problem about the grown in the number of rabbits. The Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of numbers named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci. Any sequence which obeys this rule is a Fibonacci sequence, no matter what the first two numbers are. For example, 4,7,11,18,29,47………