Playing a game of billiard with Fibonacci
Dynamical Systems
2019-06-06 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
By making use of the greatest common divisor's () properties we can highlight some connections between playing billiard inside a unit square and the Fibonacci sequence as well as the Euclidean algorithm. In particular by defining two maps and corresponding to translations and mirroring we are able to rederive Lam\'{e}'s theorem and to equip it with a geometric interpretation realizing a new way to construct the golden ratio. Further we discuss distributions of the numbers with and show that these also relate to the Fibonacci sequence.
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@article{arxiv.1906.01911,
title = {Playing a game of billiard with Fibonacci},
author = {Daniel Jaud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01911},
year = {2019}
}
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12 pages, 9 figures