Maximum versus minimum: two properties of the Fibonacci sequence

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2006.12.001MaRDI QIDQ2372157zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kurt Girstmair

Publication date 25 July 2007

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exmath.2006.12.001

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractions Fibonacci numbers maximal length minimal sum of digits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39)

Review text

For an integer \(m\) and a positive integer \(n\) a regular continued fraction is given by \(m/n=[a_0;a_1,\dots,a_{l-1}]\) with \(a_{l-1}\geq 2\). Define the length of the expansion and the sum of its digits by \(\lambda(m,n)=l\) and \(\sigma(m,n)=a_0+a_1+\dots+a_{l-1}\), respectively. It is well-known that the Fibonacci numbers have a maximum property with respect to \(\lambda(m,n)\), but it is scarcely know that they also have a minimum property relative to \(\sigma(m,n)\). The author discusses both properties and their interrelation in this paper.

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