Monthly Archives: March 2016

Operations Research Makes List of Top 5 STEM Professions Employing Women

Posted on March 16, 2016 by mzspivey

My February 2016 issue of ORMS Today says that “operations research analyst” is the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) profession with the third-highest percentage of women.  The percentage of OR analysts who are women is 55.4%.  I’m glad to see … Continue reading →

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An Explicit Solution to the Fibonacci Recurrence

Posted on March 11, 2016 by mzspivey

The Fibonacci sequence is a famous sequence of numbers that starts 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and continues forever.  Each number in the sequence is the sum of the two previous numbers in the sequence.  It’s easy to … Continue reading →

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