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arxiv: 1906.01911 · v1 · pith:6235EYXUnew · submitted 2019-06-05 · 🧮 math.DS · math.NT

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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