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Check out this sequence:
Can you figure out what
the next term will be? Maybe you saw the pattern right away...
and maybe you didn't
Each term is found by
adding the two previous terms:
So, what's the next term?
What's the
50th
term?
Hmm... Not as easy
as it was with those squared guys...
Unfortunately, with this
guy, you'd have to find all the terms leading up to the
50th
term -- since he's based on the two before them and so on. When
this happens, it's called recursion.
By the way, this last
sequence is very famous! It's called the
Fibonacci Numbers. (Named after Fibonacci, of course.)
How about this sequence?
Can you guess the next
term?
What about the
20th
term?
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