Complex Fibonacci Numbers?

2020-07-01

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Stand-up Maths

Huge thanks to Jane Street! https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/

Check out Ben Sparks's GeoGebra files.

Binet formula 2D complex output: https://www.geogebra.org/m/twvvzpga

3D imaginary output of Binet formula: https://www.geogebra.org/m/z6dy9cj5

3D plot of absolute output of Binet formula: https://www.geogebra.org/m/pb7hmxyd

My four-part series on Numberphile videos about Fibonacci Numbers (from 2014) starts here.

/youtube/video/D8ntDpBm6Ok

Here is me going on about the square root of five (Numberphile 2018).

/youtube/video/z1THaBtc5RE

This was the Fibonacci puzzle video from Matt Parker's Maths Puzzles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrqPpLpwpE

Read a whole bunch about "Generalized Fibonacci Sequences and Binet-Fibonacci Curves".

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.09151.pdf

The zero I found was at -9.14202391817 + 2.80064954276i and you can see the exact form here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2810*pi%29%2F%28pi+%2B+i*%28log%28sqrt%285%29+-+1%29+-+log%281+%2B+sqrt%285%29%29%29%29

Try it for yourself and put the Binet Formula (((1+sqrt(5))/2)^n - ((1-sqrt(5))/2)^n)/sqrt(5) in the Wolfram roots calculator: https://www.wolframalpha.com/widgets/view.jsp?id=b858339e64fa997454dd12f77cb1ece1

This site has everything you'll ever need to know about Fibonacci Numbers.

http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibFormula.html

Buttercup - The original buttercupchallenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17l_KTAVJ0

CORRECTIONS

This was a long video and in hindsight there are a few things I wish I had phrased better. Here they all are:

- I misspoke around 01:13 when I said "negative one, zero" as it is clearly "negative one, one, zero".

- At 07:53 I mean the negative values -5 to 0. I said it a weird way.

- My language at about the 1D input to 2D plot from 09:17 is a bit sloppy. The real values going into the Binet function are not the horizontal axis shown; the plot onscreen is solely the output.

- I say "axis" when I mean "plane" or even "complex plane". The big flat thing.

Let me know if you spot anything else!

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