Male Gendered Lupine Hivemind Thread

[Jdvn1]

I think people just aren't familiar with the term 'Fibonacci series', though.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I think people just aren't familiar with the term 'Fibonacci series', though.

What about Fibonacci sequence?

 

[Jdvn1]

I think it's the Italian name that throws people off, not whether it's a series or sequence. If you just say, "The series where you add the two previous numbers," then they might understand.

 

[Steve Jung]

Well, you know what the Fibonacci series is, right? (I have on this very series of Hivemind threads met people who didn't, actually)

Vaguely. IIRC, the pattern in the middle of sunflowers is a Fibonacci sequence.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Vaguely. IIRC, the pattern in the middle of sunflowers is a Fibonacci sequence.

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,etc.

Anyways, the naive way to calculate the Nth number in the series is to do the N-1 + N-2, which recursively is the N-2 + N-3 + N-3 + N-4, etc, and takes massive calculation.

Of course, you could just start at the beginning like I did at the top of this post and do it much faster.

The elegant solution finishes it really really fast though

 

[Steve Jung]

How does the elegant explanation work?

 

[Jdvn1]

The (F n-1) + (F n-2)? F, if I'm not mistaken, is Function. Basically, you just do it over and over again, on top of past results. It's elegant because it assumes less... you don't have to start with 1, it automatically goes on forever, and it's written much shorter.

 

[Steve Jung]

Ah. I just looked it up on the Wikipedia. I now see how the (F n-1) + (F n-2) fits in. Thanks.

 

[Lady_Acoma]

... On the contrary, I think smacking equations with mallets is much more fun.

No, smacking and then BURNING the equations is the way to go!

 

[Darkness]

If Hivemind threads could only last forever... Alas, they're all reaped in their best years.