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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Super Lloyd18-Jul-09 21:38
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Daniel Grunwald20-Jul-09 4:05
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Daniel Grunwald20-Jul-09 23:25
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Super Lloyd20-Jul-09 23:44
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ProtoBytes21-Jul-09 8:26
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supercat96-Jul-09 6:58
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But RFibonnaci, the recursive version, has to perform approximately 2^(index-1) method call.

If you do it right, the number of method calls will precisely equal the result. In any case, a naive approach is going to take O(phi^n) calls to complete (since the ratio of adjacent Fibonacci numbers approaches phi, i.e. (1+sqrt(5))/2 aka the Golden Mean).

An alternate recursive approach is to write a method which returns two adjacent Fibonacci numbers (either as a structure, or using pass-by-reference). Starting with having an input with n<=1 yielding (0,1), and otherwise having the code for n read the values for (n-1) into (x,y) and return (y,x+y), the recursion runs nicely in linear time.
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