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If memory serves, I was at a middle-school It's Academic contest when the summation was attributed to Fibonacci. A mathematical version of "Victory has a thousa
by cafard 4y ago
If memory serves, I was at a middle-school It's Academic contest when the summation was attributed to Fibonacci. A mathematical version of "Victory has a thousand fathers"?
- downvotetruth 4y agoPopularity contests are infamous truth sources. Pythagoreans likely originated the "[equilateral] triangular" number formula, but an unpublished astronomical treatise by the Irish monk Dicuil in about 816 is the first known written.