Compute the nth Fibonacci Number (Practice Interview Question)

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Write a function fib that takes an integer n and returns the nth Fibonacci number.

Let's say our Fibonacci series is 0-indexed and starts with 0. So:

fib(0) # => 0 fib(1) # => 1 fib(2) # => 1 fib(3) # => 2 fib(4) # => 3 ...

Our solution runs in n time.

There's a clever, more mathy solution that runs in time, but we'll leave that one as a bonus.

If you wrote a recursive function, think carefully about what it does. It might do repeat work, like computing fib(2) multiple times!

We can do this in space. If you wrote a recursive function, there might be a hidden space cost in the call stack!

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time and space.

If you're good with matrix multiplication you can bring the time cost down even further, to . Can you figure out how?

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