Article 3TVEX Fibonacci meets Pythagoras

Fibonacci meets Pythagoras

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The sum of the squares of consecutive Fibonacci numbers is another Fibonacci number. Specifically we have

FibonacciPythagorasEquation.svg

and so we have the following right triangle.

FibonacciPythagorasTriangle.svg

The hypotenuse will always be irrational because the only Fibonacci numbers that are squares are 1 and 144, and 144 is the 12th Fibonacci number.

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