>>12895513The context and knowing just a little bit about language makes it very obvious that it's the famous fibonacci number sequence rabbit problem, the ratio of consecutive terms approaching phi (1.618...) as it goes off to infinity. In the image given, lambda-nought is set equal to phi, so the point of the exercise (in a roundabout way) is the consider the behavior of a related ratio or comparison at it also blows up or at least goes off to infinity, like the big-O stuff does. But you woudln't have guessed this because you're a young dumb full of cum undergrad, or that one schizo guy.
"Conejo" is Spanish for bunny-rabbit, and the latin root is clear here, not even knowing latin: "coniculorum" being bunny-rabbits, not multiplying, but adding. "When a pair of bunny-rabbits in one year, etc etc (assume the bunnies never die and ignore the problems of incest)"
In the English translation of Liber Abaci, it's at 404-405. The English page 283 instead has humorous stuff about "butts" (of barrels) and calculating how much liquid flows out of a butt in a given time.
