Hosoya's triangle


The Hosoya triangle or Hosoya's triangle is a triangular arrangement of numbers based on the Fibonacci numbers. Each number is the sum of the two numbers above in either the left diagonal or the right diagonal. The first few rows are:
1
1 1
2 1 2
3 2 2 3
5 3 4 3 5
8 5 6 6 5 8
13 8 10 9 10 8 13
21 13 16 15 15 16 13 21
34 21 26 24 25 24 26 21 34
55 34 42 39 40 40 39 42 34 55
89 55 68 63 65 64 65 63 68 55 89
144 89 110 102 105 104 104 105 102 110 89 144
etc.
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Name

The name "Fibonacci triangle" has also been used for triangles composed of Fibonacci numbers or related numbers—Wilson, or triangles with Fibonacci sides and integral area—Yuan, hence is ambiguous.

Recurrence

The numbers in this triangle obey the recurrence relations
and

Relation to Fibonacci numbers

The entries in the triangle satisfy the identity
Thus, the two outermost diagonals are the Fibonacci numbers, while the numbers on the middle vertical line are the squares of the Fibonacci numbers. All the other numbers in the triangle are the product of two distinct Fibonacci numbers greater than 1. The row sums are the first convolved Fibonacci numbers.