I am a famous mathematical sequence where each member is the sum of the two before it: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8... What is the 10th number in this sequence if 0 is counted as the 1st?
34
The sequence terms are: 1st=0, 2nd=1, 3rd=1, 4th=2, 5th=3, 6th=5, 7th=8, 8th=13, 9th=21, 10th=34.
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