On Flowers and Fibonacci-Type Sequences
Published in (NA), 2024
Recommended citation: S. Auyeung, T. Pensyl, J. Shuster, (2024). "On Flowers and Fibonacci-Type Sequences." available upon request.
This is a note on recreational mathematics I did with friends in which we proved the following statement which arises naturally when studying (sun)flowers: Consider all Fibonacci-recurrence sequences seeded with values strictly smaller than the $n$th Fibonacci number $F_n$. The smallest integer which does not appear in any such sequence is $F_n^2$.