Monday 23 July 2012

Fibonacci Sequence

Here is the Fibonacci sequence made in Lego in the same way.

Just as in the number line you can see how the colours repeat in a regular pattern. In the Fibonacci sequence the blue block repeats every third time, and the red block every fourth time, and so on.

So we can see that
$2 | F_3, F_6, F_9, \ldots$
$3 | F_4, F_8, F_{12}, \ldots$
$5 | F_5, F_{10}, F_{15}, \ldots$

Or another way to write it is

$F_3 | F_3, F_6, F_9, \ldots$
$F_4 | F_4, F_8, F_{12}, \ldots$
$F_5 | F_5, F_{10}, F_{15}, \ldots$

So the 'F' numbers make a number line just like the counting numbers, except that F is not 'prime' ... this means that F has to be an 'F-prime'.

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