Recursive fibonacci method

Started by magesh.p, Aug 14, 2008, 07:22 PM

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Recursive fibonacci method

public class MainClass {
  // recursive declaration of method fibonacci
  public static long fibonacci(long number) {
    if ((number == 0) || (number == 1)) // base cases
      return number;
    else
      // recursion step
      return fibonacci(number - 1) + fibonacci(number - 2);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    for (int counter = 0; counter <= 10; counter++)
      System.out.printf("Fibonacci of %d is: %d\n", counter, fibonacci(counter));
  }
}


Result :

Fibonacci of 0 is: 0
Fibonacci of 1 is: 1
Fibonacci of 2 is: 1
Fibonacci of 3 is: 2
Fibonacci of 4 is: 3
Fibonacci of 5 is: 5
Fibonacci of 6 is: 8
Fibonacci of 7 is: 13
Fibonacci of 8 is: 21
Fibonacci of 9 is: 34
Fibonacci of 10 is: 55
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