Fibonacci Number as Sum of Binomial Coefficients/Mistake/First Edition

Source Work

 * The Dictionary
 * $5$
 * $5$

Mistake

 *  discovered a relationship between Fibonacci numbers and the binomial coefficients:
 * $F_{n + 1} = \paren {\dfrac n 0} + \paren {\dfrac {n - 1} 1} + \paren {\dfrac {n - 2} 2} + \cdots$


 * For example:

Correction
The notation is wrong.

It should read:


 *  discovered a relationship between Fibonacci numbers and the binomial coefficients:
 * $F_{n + 1} = \dbinom n 0 + \dbinom {n - 1} 1 + \dbinom {n - 2} 2 + \cdots$


 * For example:

The notation was corrected for the second edition of, but a further mistake was introduced in its place.