No worries Linda; it happens.  :)

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:26 PM lindaalvord <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry, Jose, I didn't look. 55 is the 10th term!
> Linda
>
>
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> -------- Original message --------From: Jose Mario Quintana <
> [email protected]> Date: 12/3/18  8:20 PM  (GMT-05:00) To:
> [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Revisisting the Y
> combinator
> Linda,
>
> Please check the Rosetta Code page, I did not produce the Fibonacci
> sequence, I just showed
>
>    FIB Y 10
> 55
>
> and almost everybody there agrees (and apparently so did Binet and de
> Moivre).
>
> Raul showed the sequence 0 1 1 2 ... and he was not the only one.
> Personally, I have no problem at all with that given the context.
>
> I hope it helps
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 7:30 PM Linda Alvord <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Jose, If you look up the derivation of the fibonnaci series was developed
> > you will find  1 1 2 3 5 . . .
> >
> > I think it should be left out of an example of the Y form. Or, maybe it
> > can be modified to come out correctly.
> >
> > I do have a way to generate the correcg formula and feel mathematicians
> > will be more comfortable with that.
> >
> >
> > Linda
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Programming <[email protected]> On Behalf
> Of
> > Jose Mario Quintana
> > Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 6:18 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Revisisting the Y combinator
> >
> > Linda,
> >
> > The choice to start the Fibonacci sequence at 0 is to conform with some
> of
> > the other answers at the Rosetta Code page,
> >
> >    Y combinator
> >
> >
> https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frosettacode.org%2Fwiki%2FY_combinator&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd5f47a327c0443363f9908d65975a77c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636794759195093996&amp;sdata=%2Fe4zXDMvVTrntKNbwZGp8rgnvkS2CZF%2FbTEq5tauOwc%3D&amp;reserved=0
> >
> > Most people start numbering items at 1 and when producing a function
> (Fib)
> > for the Fibonacci sequence the correspondence is,
> >
> >    1 2 3 4 5 6  7  8  9 10 ...
> >    1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 ...
> >
> > Some of us, and J, start numbering items at 0.  So we can use the
> > correspondence,
> >
> >  0 1 2 3 4 5 6  7  8  9 10 ...
> >  0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 ...
> >
> > So, either way, Fib(10) is 55 and we all agree even if we disagree.
> >
> > (Apparently, the Fibonacci function can be extended to the complex plane
> > and beyond using, the so-called, Binet's formula.)
> >
> > I hope it helps
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:40 PM Linda Alvord <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Jose,  Somehow this surprised me.
> > >
> > > Y=: ($:`)(`:6)
> > >    N=: 1 :'(u@:<:@:<: + u@:<:)^:(1 < ])'
> > >     P=: (5!:1)<'N'
> > >     P Y("0) i.11
> > > 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55
> > >
> > >    Y
> > > ($:`)(`:6)
> > >    N
> > > 1 : '(u@:<:@:<: + u@:<:)^:(1 < ])'
> > >    P
> > > ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
> > > │┌─┬────────────────────────────────────────┐│
> > > ││:│┌─────┬────────────────────────────────┐││
> > > ││ ││┌─┬─┐│┌─┬────────────────────────────┐│││
> > > ││ │││0│1│││0│(u@:<:@:<: + u@:<:)^:(1 < ])││││ ││
> > > ││└─┴─┘│└─┴────────────────────────────┘│││
> > > ││ │└─────┴────────────────────────────────┘││
> > > │└─┴────────────────────────────────────────┘│
> > > └────────────────────────────────────────────┘
> > >
> > >
> > > Linda
> > >
> > >
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