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Collection of Mathematical Formulas
Definition of the Fibonacci sequence:
{
F
0
=
0
F
1
=
1
F
n
+
2
=
F
n
+
F
n
+
1
,
n
∈
[
2
,
∞
)
{\displaystyle {\begin{cases}F_{0}=0\\F_{1}=1\\F_{n+2}=F_{n}+F_{n+1},&n\in \left[2,\infty \right)\end{cases}}}
(1)
[TAOCP1, p. 83]
,
[Concrete, p. 299]
:
F
n
=
1
5
(
ϕ
n
−
ϕ
^
n
)
,
n
∈
Z
,
ϕ
=
1
+
5
2
,
ϕ
^
=
1
−
5
2
{\displaystyle F_{n}={\frac {1}{\sqrt {5}}}(\phi ^{n}-{\hat {\phi }}^{n}),\quad n\in \mathbb {Z} ,\quad \phi ={\frac {1+{\sqrt {5}}}{2}},{\hat {\phi }}={\frac {1-{\sqrt {5}}}{2}}}
(2)
[TAOCP1, p. 85]
:
F
n
+
k
F
m
−
k
−
F
n
F
m
=
(
−
1
)
n
F
m
−
n
−
k
F
k
{\displaystyle F_{n+k}F_{m-k}-F_{n}F_{m}=(-1)^{n}F_{m-n-k}F_{k}}
(2)