Henry Dudeny, an English puzzle book author in the early 1900s, came up with the following simplified version of Fibonacci’s logic: If a cow produces its first female calf at age two years and produces another female calf every year after that, how many female calves are there after five years if we start with one newborn female calf and no calves die?

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Henry Dudeny, an English puzzle book author in the early 1900s, came up with the following simplified version of Fibonacci’s logic: If a cow produces its first female calf at age two years and produces another female calf every year after that, how many female calves are there after five years if we start with one newborn female calf and no calves die?

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