Monday, November 25, 2013

Error in Children's Manual

A NJ librarian was going through the 2014 Summer Reading Manual and noticed an error on page 147 of the Children's Manual,  under Fibonacci Fun - the number three (3) is missing from the sequence:
                     0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...
The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.
  • The 2 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+1)
  • Similarly, the 3 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+2),
  • And the 5 is (2+3),
  • and so on!
The formula doesn't work if the three is not there. 

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