Playing a game of billiard with Fibonacci
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By making use of the greatest common divisor's ($gcd$) 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 $\tau$ and $\sigma$ 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 $p,q\in \mathbb{N}$ with $gcd(q,p)=1$ and show that these also relate to the Fibonacci sequence.
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