Fibonacci Numbers

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Another circular program - the list nums is defined in terms of itself:

let rec
   first = lambda n. lambda L.
      if n = 0 then nil
      else (hd L)::(first (n-1) tl L),

   nums = 1::(1::(F nums)),

   F = lambda L. (hd L + hd tl L)::(F tl L)

in first 5 nums

{\fB Fibonacci List \fP}

F adds the first two numbers on its input L to form the first element of its output, which in turn becomes part of the input. Note that first and F are quite ordinary functions and could be applied to many other lists.


Coding Ockham's Razor, L. Allison, Springer

A Practical Introduction to Denotational Semantics, L. Allison, CUP

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λ ...
:: list cons
nil the [ ] list
null  predicate
hd head (1st)
tl tail (rest)

© L. Allison   http://www.allisons.org/ll/   (or as otherwise indicated),
Faculty of Information Technology (Clayton), Monash University, Australia 3800 (6/'05 was School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Fac. Info. Tech., Monash University,
was Department of Computer Science, Fac. Comp. & Info. Tech., '89 was Department of Computer Science, Fac. Sci., '68-'71 was Department of Information Science, Fac. Sci.)
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