Re: Fibonacci program

"spartacus" <schick.jonathan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> i have to program a cobol program where the prompt lists the fibonacci
> number sequence with a maximum of 9 digits. i'm supposed to use COMPUTE
> and ON SIZE ERROR.
>
> can anyone please help?

Fibonacci Series: each number F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2), beginning with F(1) =
1 (e.g. 1,1,2,3,5,8, ...).

The Fibonacci Series is one of those Gee Whiz numbers that turn up in many
surprising and unexpected places, like e, ? and ? (Golden Ratio = sqrt[5 +
1] / 2). The number of seeds in the spirals of sunflower heads are often
consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

Circa 1969 I created a little one-card binary program for the IBM 1401 that
would print all the Fibonacci numbers through 132 digits, until it
overflowed the print buffer. When I submitted it as a batch job (one card
in - many pages out), the operators were not as amused as I was. :-)
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