The Fibonacci sequence

Implementing the Fibonacci sequence is considered the "Hello, world!" of Haskell programming. This page collects Haskell implementations of the sequence.

Naive definition

fib 0 = 0
fib 1 = 1
fib n = fib (n-1) + fib (n-2)

Linear-time implementations

One can compute the first n Fibonacci numbers with O(n) additions. If fibs is the infinite list of Fibonacci numbers, one can define

fib n = fibs!!n

Canonical zipWith implementation

fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)

With scanl

fibs = fix ((0:) . scanl (+) 1)

With unfoldr

fibs = unfoldr (\(f1,f2) -> Just (f1,(f2,f1+f2))) (0,1)

Log-time implementations

Using 2x2 matrices

Using simple matrices,

fib n = head (apply (Matrix [[1,1], [1,0]] ^ n) [0,1])

A fairly fast version, using some identities

fib 0 = 0
fib 1 = 1
fib n | even n         = f1 * (f1 + 2 * f2)
      | n `mod` 4 == 1 = (2 * f1 + f2) * (2 * f1 - f2) + 2
      | otherwise      = (2 * f1 + f2) * (2 * f1 - f2) - 2
   where k = n `div` 2
         f1 = fib k
         f2 = fib (k-1)

Another fast fib

fib = fst . fib2

-- | Return (fib n, fib (n + 1))
fib2 0 = (1, 1)
fib2 1 = (1, 2)
fib2 n
 | even n    = (a*a + b*b, c*c - a*a)
 | otherwise = (c*c - a*a, b*b + c*c)
 where (a,b) = fib2 (n `div` 2 - 1)
       c     = a + b

Fastest Fib in the West

This was contributed by wli (It assumes that the sequence starts with 1.)

import Data.List

fib1 n = snd . foldl fib' (1, 0) . map (toEnum . fromIntegral) $ unfoldl divs n
    where
        unfoldl f x = case f x of
                Nothing     -> []
                Just (u, v) -> unfoldl f v ++ [u]

        divs 0 = Nothing
        divs k = Just (uncurry (flip (,)) (k `divMod` 2))

        fib' (f, g) p
            | p         = (f*(f+2*g), f^2 + g^2)
            | otherwise = (f^2+g^2,   g*(2*f-g))

See also

• Discussion at haskell cafe
• Some other nice solutions