Article 52X3F Analogy between Fibonacci and Chebyshev

Analogy between Fibonacci and Chebyshev

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Quick observation: I recently noticed that Chebyshev polynomials and Fibonacci numbers have analogous formulas.

The nth Chebyshev polynomial satisfies

ChebyFib1.svg

for |x| >= 1, and the nth Fibonacci number is given by

ChebyFib2.svg

There's probably a way to explain the similarity in terms of the recurrence relations that both sequences satisfy.

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