What is the value of ? (Hint: Use the power rule to your advantage.)
This problem is part of the Multiplibonacci set.
Multiplibonacci #1 (do this first!)
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Here are the first few numbers in the Multiplibonacci sequence 2 M : 1 , 2 , 2 , 2 2 , 2 3 , 2 5 , 2 8 . . . As you might have noticed, the powers in 2 M are Fibonacci numbers! This means that lo g 2 ( 2 M n ) is always going to be a Fibonacci number.
If you're careful, you might also notice that 2 M starts with 2 0 instead of 2 1 . This means that the power in the n th Multiplibonacci number is always the n th Fibonacci number minus 1.
Combining the two facts, we get that lo g 2 ( 2 M n ) is always going to be the n − 1 st Fibonacci number. Because n is 20 in the problem, we get that lo g 2 ( 2 M 2 0 ) is the 19th Fibonacci number, which is 4 1 8 1 .