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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

John Sharp
John Sharp*
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The Fibonacci series 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,.... is well known because so many properties have been found for it and because there are many instances of it occurring both in nature and mathematics. It is of course formed from the recurrence relationship

The Tribonacci series 0,1,1,2,4,7,13,24,44,81,149,... is formed in a similar way but from the recurrence

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 82 , Issue 494 , July 1998 , pp. 203 - 214
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1998

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