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Here are the perimeters of $G_6$.


Here are the perimeters of $G_6$ rewritten in terms of their Fibonacci numbers ($F_1 = 1, F_2 = 1, F_3 = 2, F_4 =3$ and so on).

Can you draw a diagram showing what happens more generally?

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