Fibonacci sequence in Ruby (recursion)

Question

I\'m trying to implement the following function, but it keeps giving me the stack level too deep (SystemStackError) error.

Any ideas what the problem mi

Answer 1

This is not the way you calculate fibonacci, you are creating huge recursive tree which will fail for relatively small ns. I suggest you do something like this:

def fib_r(a, b, n)
  n == 0 ? a : fib_r(b, a + b, n - 1)
end

def fib(n)
  fib_r(0, 1, n)
end

p (0..100).map{ |n| fib(n) }