Relationship To Fibonacci Numbers
The Lucas numbers are related to the Fibonacci numbers by the identities
- , and thus as approaches +∞, the ratio approaches
Their closed formula is given as:
where is the Golden ratio. Alternatively, as for the magnitude of the term is less than 1/2, is the closest integer to or, equivalently, the integer part of, also written as .
Conversely, .
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