Lucas Number
The Lucas numbers or Lucas series are an integer sequence named after the mathematician François Édouard Anatole Lucas (1842–1891), who studied both that sequence and the closely related Fibonacci numbers. Lucas numbers and Fibonacci numbers form complementary instances of Lucas sequences.
Read more about Lucas Number: Definition, Extension To Negative Integers, Relationship To Fibonacci Numbers, Congruence Relations, Lucas Primes, Lucas Polynomials
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