"Tribonacci" meaning in English

See Tribonacci in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Blend of tri- + Fibonacci Etymology templates: {{blend|en|tri-|Fibonacci}} Blend of tri- + Fibonacci Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tribonacci
  1. (mathematics) A variant of the Fibonacci sequence in which the preceding three terms, rather than the preceding two, are summed at each iteration. Categories (topical): Mathematics

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