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Lucas number

Lucas number noun: any member of an integer sequence that has the same recursive relationship as the Fibonacci sequence, i.e. each term is the sum of the two previous terms, but with different starting values such that the ratios of successive terms approach the golden ratio.

Noun

Lucas number (plural Lucas numbers)

  1. Any member of an integer sequence that has the same recursive relationship as the Fibonacci sequence, i.e. each term is the sum of the two previous terms, but with different starting values such that the ratios of successive terms approach the golden ratio.

Lucas number meaning in Tamil

Lucas number in Tamil

லூகஸ் எண்

Forms of Lucas number

pluralLucas numbers

Origin of Lucas number

Named after the mathematician François Édouard Anatole Lucas.

Questions about Lucas number

What does Lucas number mean?
Lucas number means any member of an integer sequence that has the same recursive relationship as the Fibonacci sequence, i.e. each term is the sum of the two previous terms, but with different starting values such that the ratios of successive terms approach the golden ratio.
What is Lucas number in Tamil?
Lucas number in Tamil is லூகஸ் எண். See Lucas number meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Lucas number?
Lucas number is a noun.
What is the plural of Lucas number?
The plural of Lucas number is Lucas numbers.

Words near Lucas number in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lucas number (page history and authors); lucas number (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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