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== Fibonacci sequence ==
This article should be called ''Fibonacci sequence'' and not ''Fibonacci number''. A ''Fibonacci number'' is meaningless out of the context of its sequence. If I asked you "what is 21?", nobody would say "the Fibonacci number after 13". But if I asked "what is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...?, I'd have a much greater chance of hearing "Fibonacci sequence". This article should be moved to ''Fibonacci sequence'' over the redirect, and ''Fibonacci number'' should redirect to ''Fibonacci sequence''. <
:: I was going to say it's commonly called "numbers" by everyone in the world, but then I looked at the interwiki links: bg, cs, eo, pt, ru - Numbers. ca, de, el, es, fr, it, scn, sk, tr, uk - Sequence. Still, I've mostly seen it as "numbers" in English - for example that's how it's called on the Integer Sequences site [http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A000045] and, for another example, Wolfram's Mathworld defines the Sequence [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FibonacciSequence.html] as "see Fibonacci Number". The Marriam-Webster dictionary of the English Language has the entry for numbers [http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Fibonacci%20number] but not sequence, while American Heritage Dictionary has both and essentially says "See Sequence" for Number: [http://www.bartleby.com/61/0/F0100000.html] and [http://www.bartleby.com/61/1/F0100100.html]. Doesn't look like there is an agreement. --[[User:Cubbi|Cubbi]] ([[User talk:Cubbi|talk]]) 12:23, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
:Though I'm not sure it's supported by Cubbi's post, isn't "sequence" a alightly technical mathematician's way of putting it, and "numbers" what the man in the street would say? Fibonacci numbers are rather insignificant in professional math, but play a quite significant role in popular math, recreational math. I'm for keeping the article at "numbers".--[[User:Noe|Niels Ø (noe)]] ([[User talk:Noe|talk]]) 13:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
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This is an example of how to print a Fibonacci series in [[C (programming language)|C]]:
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#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
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return fib(n-1)+fib(n-2);
}
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== MathWorld Fibonacci article should be linked ==
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