Why are Fibonacci numbers significant in computer science?

Question

Fibonacci numbers have become a popular introduction to recursion for Computer Science students and there\'s a strong argument that they persist within nature. For these reasons

Answer 1

I don't think there's a definitive answer but one possibility is that the operation of dividing a set S into two partitions S1 and S2 one of which is then divided into to sub-partitions S11 and S12, one of which has the same size as S2 - is a likely approach to many algorithms and that can be sometimes numerically described as a Fibonacci sequence.