Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers

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Date	Tue, 17 May 2011 11:56:33 -0700
Subject	Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers
From	geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Jussi Piitulainen
<jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> geremy condra writes:
>
>> or O(1):
>>
>> φ = (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2
>> def fib(n):
>>     numerator = (φ**n) - (1 - φ)**n
>>     denominator = sqrt(5)
>>     return round(numerator/denominator)
>>
>> Testing indicates that it's faster somewhere around 7 or so.
>
> And increasingly inaccurate from 71 on.

Yup. That's floating point for you. For larger values you could just
add a linear search at the bottom using the 5f**2 +/- 4 rule, which
would still be quite fast out to about 10 times that. The decimal
module gets you a tiny bit further, and after that it's time to just
use Dijkstra's, like rusi suggested. In any event, I still think this
formulation is the most fun ;).

Geremy Condra

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Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers RJB <rbotting@csusb.edu> - 2011-05-17 08:50 -0700
  Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 10:23 -0600
  Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 09:25 -0700
  Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 09:36 -0700
    Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 10:02 -0700
      Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2011-05-17 20:19 +0300
        Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 11:56 -0700
          Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Wolfram Hinderer <wolfram.hinderer@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-17 14:04 -0700
            Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 14:59 -0700
            Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 21:43 -0700
      Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-19 22:47 +0000
        Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 09:37 +1000
          Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-20 05:58 +0000
            Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 16:06 +1000
              Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-20 01:26 -0500
                Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 16:54 +1000
                Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-20 17:07 +0000
                Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 11:43 -0700
                Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-21 10:44 +1000
              Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-05-21 20:49 +1200
            Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 01:26 -0600
            Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 01:32 -0600
              Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers SigmundV <sigmundv@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 03:53 -0700
        Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 17:03 -0700
  Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-24 16:44 -0700

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