Talk:Metallic ratios

Please don't add unnecessarily large outputs

If you want to demonstrate calculating the ratio to insane precision past 256 decimal places, fine, but please just put how many iterations it took, not the calculated value. It doesn't really add anything. If you really want to see extremely precisely calculated values for phi, here's it is to one million places. --Thundergnat (talk) 18:19, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Why is it that you call my 10,000 decimal digit example (REXX) an insane precision,   but 1,000,000 was extremely precise?   In any case, it has been deleted.   But, my reason wasn't to see extremely precisely calculated values of phi.     -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 01:30, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Initial values for the "Lucas sequences"

The initial values (1, 1) do not give the actual Lucas sequences used in mathematics. The Lucas sequences U_n(P,Q) and V_n(P,Q) are defined with the following initial values: U_0(P,Q) = 0, U_1(P,Q) = 1, and V_0(P,Q) = 2, V_1(P,Q) = P.

For example, A006190(n) = U_n(3, -1), which, by definition, has the property that the ratio between successive terms converges to the bronze ratio.

On the other hand, there is no mentioning of "Lucas" or "bronze" in A003688.