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From: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP (Lee Dickey)
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Subject: Re: Fib[0] is 0, not 1
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Date: Sun, 26-Aug-84 17:38:13 EDT
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Steve Vegdahl says:
> 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 ...

I tend to agree, but the properties of this sequence that make it
interesting to me do not depend on how many initial terms one omits.