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The Fibonacci sequence was discovered in a bunny’s diary. Rabbits are overachievers.

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The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa, who described it in his 1202 book Liber Abaci in a problem about rabbits. It had appeared earlier in Indian mathematics, but no bunny diary exists.

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