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2009 Bounds for Fibonacci period growth
Chuya Guo, Alan Koch
Involve 2(2): 195-210 (2009). DOI: 10.2140/involve.2009.2.195

Abstract

We study the Fibonacci sequence mod n for some positive integer n. Such a sequence is necessarily periodic; we introduce a function Q(n) which gives the ratio of the length of this period to n itself. We compute Q(n) in certain cases and provide bounds for it which depend on the nature of the prime divisors of n.

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Chuya Guo. Alan Koch. "Bounds for Fibonacci period growth." Involve 2 (2) 195 - 210, 2009. https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2009.2.195

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Received: 22 August 2008; Accepted: 5 December 2008; Published: 2009
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1225.11020
MathSciNet: MR2501337
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/involve.2009.2.195

Subjects:
Primary: 11B39
Secondary: 11B50

Keywords: Fibonacci period mod $n$ , Fibonacci periods , Fibonacci sequence , growth of Fibonacci periods

Rights: Copyright © 2009 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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