On 17 Mai, 20:56, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Jussi Piitulainen > > <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi> wrote: > > geremy condra writes: > > >> or O(1): > > >> ö = (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2 > >> def fib(n): > >> numerator = (ö**n) - (1 - ö)**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 ;).
I think you can write it even more funny def fib(n): return round(((.5 + .5 * 5 ** .5) ** n - (.5 - .5 * 5 ** .5) ** n) * 5 ** -.5) ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list