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Re:Tail Recursion Tactics: Fibonacci by engnr567 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @04:55PM (#16560374)
Exactly. And fibonacci numbers also have a closed form which can be (in theory) evaluated in O(1):

http://austinrochford.com/posts/2013-11-01-generating-functi...

Re:Tail Recursion Tactics: Fibonacci by cousin_it on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:48PM (#16560566)
The number of digits in the nth Fibonacci number grows linearly with n, so you can't compute these digits in O(1). The fastest algorithms, described in the link I gave, have complexity O(n * something) where "something" grows much slower than n and depends on the bigint multiplication algorithm used.
Re:Tail Recursion Tactics: Fibonacci by engnr567 on Sunday March 11, 2018 @03:17AM (#16562025)
The matrix exponentiation algorithm in the link you sent is O(log(n)). Yes, this might seem strange because the output (F_n) itself has n bits. But in practice most of the implementations would use long integers for output, so log(F_n) < 64 for these implementations.
Re:Tail Recursion Tactics: Fibonacci by cousin_it on Sunday March 11, 2018 @08:04PM (#16565406)
The article I linked has code examples in four languages, all use bigints, not longs.