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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
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Subject: Fib[0] is 0, not 1
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 14:37:58 EDT
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In response to a recent article part of whose definition of fib was:
	if n < 2 then fib := 1
This should have been (assuming n positive):
	if n < 2 then fib := n
The sequence is
	0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ...
not
	1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ...

Reference: Knuth, volume 1, page 78.