re: #508 Belafon

I wrote a little Python function to help me determine the smallest 6 digit Fibonacci number: 121,393. Then, being a good programmer, I generalized it. Here’s how fast Fibonacci numbers grow: For a given length, there are at most five numbers of that length. Some lengths only have four Fibonacci numbers. With an efficient implementation, you only have to do about 500 computations to get Fibonacci numbers of length 100.

My brother used to deposit an amount in his savings account to make a full house or a prime number out of the total. Back then, a personal computer was made by Texas Instruments. Now he has a nicely-cooled room full of servers next to his office. With a slide rule framed on his office wall, with a caption: IN CASE OF POWER OUTAGE, BREAK GLASS

And I thought HE was a geek…