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Good stuff! I love Fibonacci algorithms and if you dig deeper, there are even faster algorithms that exploit even more identities like the fast doubling and look-up tables.

It's a fun recreational mathematics thing, but unfortunately I've never come across a problem where I need to solve Fibonacci insanely quickly. However I still keep my hopes up!



Fibonacci numbers are so fun that Fibonacci Quarterly has been around for 52 years.

http://www.fq.math.ca/


Just a guess, but it might be useful for fractal rendering. That's the only real application I can think of.


The techniques developed are useful in other areas. Eg Double_Cast talks about fast matrix multiplication above---certainly a useful technique elsewhere.




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