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Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2015 2:03 pm**

Hi,

I realized that the code for the fibonacci functions in the codepatterns
section is wrong: http://www.newlisp.org/CodePatterns.html#toc-5

The code is:

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; classic recursion
; slow and resource hungry
(define (fib n)
    (if (< n 2) 1
        (+  (fib (- n 1))
            (fib (- n 2)))))

> (fib 12)
233

Should be:

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; classic recursion
; slow and resource hungry
(define (fib n)
    (if (< n 2) n
        (+  (fib (- n 1))
            (fib (- n 2)))))

> (fib 12)
144

The iterative version should be fixed also, something like
that should be correct:

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; iteration
; fast and also returns the whole list
(define (fibo n , f)
  (set 'f '(1 0))
  (case n
    (0 (1 f))
    (1 f)
    (true
      (dotimes (i (- n 1))
        (push (+ (f 0) (f 1)) f)))))

> (fibo 12)
(144 89 55 34 21 13 8 5 3 2 1 1 0)

Posted: **Sat Sep 19, 2015 1:43 pm**

It depends what you define as the Fibonacci sequence:

The expression (if (< n 2) 1 sees n as index into the sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8 …
The expression (if (< n 2) n sees n as index into the sequence 0,1,1,2,3,5,8 …

The original Fibonacci sequence does not contain a result for (fibo 0) (see the “rabbit” example), and one could argue, that the result for (fibo 0) should not be included but is undefined.

The first form is also faster for the same result:

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> (time (println (fib1 29)))
832040
459.522
> (time (println (fibn 30)))
832040
738.925
>

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Documentation typo in CodePatterns

Documentation typo in CodePatterns

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