Re: Fibonacci program

"Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "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 above should be "like e, pi and phi (Golden Ratio = [sqrt{5} + 1] / 2)."
Sorry!

> 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. :-)
> --
> Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
> Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
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>


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