[Tutor] fibonacci

Chris Avery purplebo@babylonia.flatirons.org
Wed Feb 12 00:41:01 2003


Of course, my apologies.

The Fibonacci sequence is the sequence of numbers each of which, after the 
second, is the sum of the two previous ones.  

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,...,

Sorry about the confusion.
Chris

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Danny Yoo wrote:

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> 
> On 11 Feb 2003, Chris Avery wrote:
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> > Hello all.
> >
> > How would one go about writing a program that computes the fibonacci
> > sequence?
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> 
> Counterquestion: what is the fibonacci sequence?  *grin*
> 
> 
> But seriously speaking: pretend that none of us on the list know what the
> "fibonacci sequence" is, and try explaining it to us.  Since concrete
> examples help clear our head, it might also be helpful to show us what the
> first few terms of these sequence are.
> 
> You may find that explaining it to a human can help you figure out how to
> program a computer how to do it!
> 
> 

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