Finding length in recursive definition?
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- Subject: [mg60877] Finding length in recursive definition?
- From: "Jose Reckoner" <reckoner at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 02:55:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have something like: f[1] = 1 f[2] = 3 f[n_] := f[n] = f[n - 1] + f[n - 2] and in the course of work, f[n] gets evaluated an unknown number of times resulting in >> ?f f[1] = 1 f[2] = 3 f[3] = 4 f[n_] := f[n] = f[n - 1] + f[n - 2] I want to figure out the greatest integer n such that f[n] has already been computed and is stored. In this case, it is 3. How can I do this? Thanks! Jose