Re: Fabonicseries Program required
Karl Uppiano wrote:
"JanTheKing" <janesh.s@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hey Furious George,
Your mail was really hilarious. Thanks man.
I had knowingly coded the program like that - so that Sirusha puts some
original effort.
HINT to OP: Using a BigDecimal would solve the issue.
And if you want to compute f(100) in less than 5 minutes, consider how you
might use a Map to improve efficiency.
"Five minutes?" You must have a Really Fast Machine!
Just for fun I tried the recursive solution using BigInteger
on my 3GHz Pentium IV, which took not quite one minute to compute
f(42). At that rate, f(100) would take about two and a quarter
million years.
The obvious iterative solution, again using BigInteger, computed
f(100) in less than one millisecond.
I didn't test the closed-form non-iterative solution, because
BigInteger doesn't mix well with powers of irrational numbers.
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