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1 - Probabilizing Fibonacci Numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2018

Persi Diaconis
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Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Steve Butler
Affiliation:
Iowa State University
Joshua Cooper
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina
Glenn Hurlbert
Affiliation:
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Connections in Discrete Mathematics
A Celebration of the Work of Ron Graham
, pp. 1 - 12
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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