Python Program to Print Fibonacci Series

Write a python program to print Fibonacci Series using loop or recursion.

Fibonacci series is that number sequence which starts with 0 followed by 1 and rest of the following nth term is equal to (n-1)th term + (n-2)th term.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 …

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• Python If Else
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Fibonacci Series in Python using For Loop

We need to follow the following steps in order to print the Fibonacci series in Python.

1. Input the number of terms in Fibonacci Series (n).
2. If (n==1) then print 0, else if (n==2) print 0 and 1.
3. else print 0, 1 and loop from 2 to n and print rest of the terms by summing up the last two fibonacci terms.

n = int(input("Enter the number of terms: "))

if n == 1:
    print("0")
elif n == 2:
    print("0, 1");
else:
    a=0
    b=1
    c=0
    
    #print the first two elements
    print("{}, {}, ".format(a,b), end='')
    #print the rest of the follwing elements
    for i in range(2,n):
        c=a+b
        print("{}, ".format(c), end='')
        a=b
        b=c

Output

Enter the number of terms: 10                                                                                                 
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34

Fibonacci Series in Python using Recursion

Using recursion we can only get the nth Fibonacci number at a time, therefore we need to call the recursive function for every Fibonacci term.

#recusrive function returns the nth fibonacci term
def fibonacci(n):
    if n==1:
        return 0
    elif n==2:
        return 1
    
    return fibonacci(n-1)+fibonacci(n-2)
    
n = int(input("Enter the number of terms: "))

#print the rest of the follwing elements
for i in range(1,n+1):
    print("{}, ".format(fibonacci(i)), end='')

Output

Enter the number of terms: 10                                                                                                 
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34

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