What, Exactly, are Lucas Numbers?
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5 min readAug 30, 2022
The lesser-known sibling of the Fibonacci Numbers
The Fibonacci Numbers are very well-known, even to people who aren’t mathematicians. Humans have been thinking about this sequence since at least 200 B.C.E. with a record by the Indian poet and mathematician Pingala. Before, I talk about what the Lucas Numbers are, let’s review the Fibonacci Numbers. Both of these are integer sequences, which mean that…
