Because The Security World Change,

I like to recommend you a good reading, related with the future of the Security Industry and what need to be changed in the way how the Information Security is exercised. (The Future of Security The Trends and Technologies Transforming Security).

Happy reading

Fibonacci, tail recursion and some Python

EDX is offering for time been an really interesting course (Louv1.01x Paradigms of Computer Programming) about the theory of computer programming. One of the homework was to use tail recursion in order to calculate the Fibonacci sequence. Because the solution is really smart I like to put some Python code to show the concept.

From the mathematical point of view you can see the Fibonacci sequence some think like:

a, b, a+b, a+2b, 2a+3b, 3a+5b, 5a + 8b, 8a +13b

or
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,

so in general: F(a, b, n) = F(b, a+b, n-1) 

this can generate the following code:

def fibonacci_calc(acc1=0, acc2=1, nummber = 0):
if nummber == 0:
return acc1
elif nummber == 1:
return acc2
else:
return fibonacci_calc(acc2, acc2+acc1, nummber-1)

and the hole code can be called like:
fibonacci_calc(0, 1, n)
I wish you happy coding…