From ef88a8651eaed27c09c2b2775f1bada800e55005 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex979 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 23:06:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added fibonacci snippet --- snippets/fibonacci.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 snippets/fibonacci.md diff --git a/snippets/fibonacci.md b/snippets/fibonacci.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3b8041bc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/snippets/fibonacci.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +### fibonacci + +Generates a list containing the Fibonacci sequence up to the nth term. + +Starting with 0 and 1, adds the sum of the last two numbers of the list to the end of the list using ```list.append()``` until the length of the list reaches n. If the given nth value is 0 or less, the method will just return a list containing 0. + +``` python +def fibonacci(n): + if n <= 0: + return [0] + + sequence = [0, 1] + while len(sequence) <= n: + # Add the sum of the previous two numbers to the sequence + next_value = sequence[len(sequence) - 1] + sequence[len(sequence) - 2] + sequence.append(next_value) + + return sequence +``` + +``` python +fibonacci(7) # [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13] +```