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Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the Fibonacci sequence which do not exceed four million.
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
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# Problem: Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the Fibonacci sequence which do not exceed four million. | |
# Description: Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be: | |
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# 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ... | |
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# Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the sequence which do not exceed four million. | |
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# Solution: | |
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current = 0 | |
succeeding = 1 | |
sum = 0 | |
limit = 4000000 | |
while (current < limit) do | |
current, succeeding = succeeding, current + succeeding | |
sum += current if (current%2).zero? | |
if current < limit | |
next | |
else | |
puts sum and break | |
end | |
end |
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