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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

John Sharp*
Affiliation:
20 The Glebe, Watford WD2 6LR

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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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