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Story 20b: Diagonalization is just the best
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Story 21a: The gentle art of changing basis
Note Set 20c: Finding Fibonacci numbers
We outline the nutritious diagonalization-enabled problem of finding the $n$th Fibonacci number. The golden ratio, the most irrational number, appears and we are delighted.
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Story 20b: Diagonalization is just the best
All Stories
Story 21a: The gentle art of changing basis