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A group structure on the golden triples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2021

Howard Sporn*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, USA 11364 e-mail: hsporn@qcc.cuny.edu

Extract

Some favourite topics of both mathematics teachers and mathematics students are the golden ratio, Fibonacci numbers, groups, and Pythagorean triples. The material of this paper involves the first three, and there are some analogies with the fourth.

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© The Mathematical Association 2021

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