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Fibonacci Function Implementation in JavaScript
/**
* Fibonacci is a popular sequence known amongst both mathematicians and programmers.
* Fibonacci starts with 1,1 in the sequence and upon a specified iteration count
* will continue to add the last two numbers in the sequence.
*
* @author Mark Auger
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* @license
* Copyright (c) 2021 Mark Auger
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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*
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* @param {number} i `i` is the number of iterations to make on fibonacci
* @param {number[]} sequence `sequence` is used to store the sequence on each iteration. DO NOT CHANGE.
* @return {number[]}
**/
function fibonacci(i, sequence = [ 1, 1 ]) {
const x1 = sequence.pop(), x2 = sequence.pop();
sequence.push(x2, x1, x1 + x2);
if (i-- === 0) {
return sequence;
} else {
return fibonacci(i, sequence);
}
}
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