Talk:Fibonacci family

Lack of sources
I am concerned about the lack of sources in this article, so I have flagged it with the {unreferenced} tag. I did try to find sources that use the term "Fibonacci family" with the meaning described in the article, but I drew a blank - the only references I found were either using the term in a genealogical sense, or where using it as a synonym for Fibonacci sequence. I bleieve the correct term for a sequence defined by a general linear second order recurrence relation is a Lucas sequence, on which we already have an article. Unless someone can provide reliable sources quite soon, I propose replacing this article with a re-direct to Lucas sequence. Gandalf61 (talk) 14:52, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

I agree that this is a bit off track. I am not sure that any of the links to this are worthwhile (haven't checked them all). This describes the most general case of degree two linear homogeneous recurrence relations with constant coefficients. It might be interesting to have an article on that subject but the title here is way off base. Lucas sequences start 0,1 (U case) or 2,* (V case) as correctly described on that page.--Gentlemath (talk) 01:00, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * There is no need to propose deleteion. We can just replace this page with a redirect to Lucas sequence, which now covers the general solution to a linear second order recurrence relation. I have now done this. Gandalf61 (talk) 10:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Why not delete it?
OK, glad THAT page got fixed. THIS page serves no special purpose. It is currently linked to only by the following:

Fibonacci (links) Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics (links) Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematical and Natural Sciences (links) User:Mathbot/Changes to mathlists (links) Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity (links) Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics/Lists (links)

Ok I just killed the one link from Fibonacci which was under the picture of Leonardo de Pisa and said "things LdP was known for"--Gentlemath (talk) 16:40, 22 February 2009 (UTC)