Limit of ratios of consecutive Fibonacci terms
Question
Let denote the Fibonacci numbers. The limit of as can be written as with pairwise coprime positive integers. What is ?
Short answer
10. Divide the recurrence by the middle term: the ratio obeys , so its limit solves . The positive root is the golden ratio , so .
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