This page is about series that masquerade as the Fibonacci numbers, but, when we examine them carefully, they are forgeries. The highest power of x which occurs is called the degree of the polynomial. If the polynomial has an infinite number of powers of x, it is called a power series .
Congruent configurations are to be counted as one.
From the examples given, we can clear up a few questions left by this definition. By congruent, she means that a shape can be rotated or reflected and it still counts as the same shape. The sequences are not to overlap, that is, a later segment cannot lie on top of an earlier one, so that each diagram of n links has exactly n straight line segments in it. The program also showed that The number of 8-link shapes is 23 and this should be 21 if the Fibonacci numbers were the correct series. There are 43 9-link shapes and again this should be 34 if the Fibonacci numbers were involved.