On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > On 2012-09-14, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> But then again, who actually ever needs fibonacci numbers? > > If it should happen that your question is not facetious: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Applications
It wasn't entirely facetious. I know there are a few cases where they're needed, but I think they're calculated far more often to demonstrate algorithms than because you actually have use of them. :) Though it's as well to mention these sorts of things now and then. I remember one time writing up something or other, and my dad was looking over my shoulder and asked me why I'd written a little Pascal's Triangle generator. He didn't know that it had direct application to whatever-it-was. And unfortunately I don't remember what I was even writing at the time :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
