Fibonacci Numbers - Magnitude

Magnitude

Since is asymptotic to, the number of digits in is asymptotic to . As a consequence, for every integer there are either 4 or 5 Fibonacci numbers with d decimal digits.

More generally, in the base b representation, the number of digits in is asymptotic to .

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