Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Huge thanks to Jane Street! janestreet.com/join-jane-street

Check out Ben Sparks's GeoGebra files.
Binet formula 2D complex output: geogebra.org/m/twvvzpga
3D imaginary output of Binet formula: geogebra.org/m/z6dy9cj5
3D plot of absolute output of Binet formula: geogebra.org/m/pb7hmxyd

My four-part series on Numberphile videos about Fibonacci Numbers (from 2014) starts here.
youtube.com/watch?v=D8ntDpBm6Ok

Here is me going on about the square root of five (Numberphile 2018).
youtube.com/watch?v=z1THaBtc5RE

This was the Fibonacci puzzle video from Matt Parker's Maths Puzzles.
youtube.com/watch?v=ILrqPpLpwpE

Read a whole bunch about "Generalized Fibonacci Sequences and Binet-Fibonacci Curves".
arxiv.org/pdf/1707.09151.pdf

The zero I found was at -9.14202391817 + 2.80064954276i and you can see the exact form here: wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2810*pi%29%2F%28pi+%2B+i*%28log%28sqrt%285%29+-+1%29+-+log%281+%2B+sqrt%285%29%29%29%29

Try it for yourself and put the Binet Formula (((1+sqrt(5))/2)^n - ((1-sqrt(5))/2)^n)/sqrt(5) in the Wolfram roots calculator: wolframalpha.com/widgets/view.jsp?id=b858339e64fa997454dd12f77cb1ece1

This site has everything you'll ever need to know about Fibonacci Numbers.
maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibFormula.html

Buttercup - The original buttercupchallenge
youtube.com/watch?v=l17l_KTAVJ0

CORRECTIONS
This was a long video and in hindsight there are a few things I wish I had phrased better. Here they all are:
- I misspoke around 01:13 when I said "negative one, zero" as it is clearly "negative one, one, zero".
- At 07:53 I mean the negative values -5 to 0. I said it a weird way.
- My language at about the 1D input to 2D plot from 09:17 is a bit sloppy. The real values going into the Binet function are not the horizontal axis shown; the plot onscreen is solely the output.
- I say "axis" when I mean "plane" or even "complex plane". The big flat thing.
Let me know if you spot anything else!

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