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==Significance==
In 1960, [[Hillel Furstenberg]] and [[Harry Kesten]] had shown that for a a general class of random-sequence generating processes that includes the random Fibonacci sequence, the absolute value of the ''n''th term converges to a power of a fixed constant. This proof was significant in advances in [[laser]] technology and the study of [[glass]]es. The [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] in [[1977]] went to [[Philip Warren Anderson]] of [[Bell Laboratories]], [[Sir Nevill Francis Mott]] of [[Cambridge University]] in [[England]], and [[John Hasbrouck van Vleck ]] of [[Harvard]] "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems". These investigations were largely dependent on Furstenberg's and Kesten's proof. Viswanath, by specifying the value of the constant number has helped seal the proof, and make it available for deeper studies
Viswanath's constant may explain the case of rabbits randomly allowed to prey on each other. (See [[Fibonacci sequence]] for the original statement of the rabbit problem.) This step would allow closer simulation of real world scenarios in various applications.
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