Pisano period (English, noun)
expansion: Pisano period (plural Pisano periods)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The period (of repetition) of the sequence of Fibonacci numbers reduced modulo a given natural number (≥1); it can be considered to be a function π(n) where n is the modulus of reduction (see modular arithmetic) and the function returns the period (of the reduced Fibonacci sequence) corresponding to that given modulus.
Forms:
form: Pisano periods
tags: plural