C Program to Find the Nth Fibonacci Number using Recursion
Posted by Superadmin on December 09 2015 04:31:15
This C Program prints the fibonacci of a given number using recursion. In fibonacci series, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. Eg: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …
The following program returns the nth number entered by user residing in the fibonacci series.
Here is the source code of the C program to print the nth number of a fibonacci number. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.
/*
 * C Program to find the nth number in Fibonacci series using recursion
 */
#include <stdio.h>
int fibo(int);
 
int main()
{
    int num;
    int result;
 
    printf("Enter the nth number in fibonacci series: ");
    scanf("%d", &num);
    if (num < 0)
    {
        printf("Fibonacci of negative number is not possible.\n");
    }
    else
    {
        result = fibo(num);
        printf("The %d number in fibonacci series is %d\n", num, result);
    }
    return 0;
}
int fibo(int num)
{
    if (num == 0)
    {
        return 0;
    }
    else if (num == 1)
    {
        return 1;
    }
    else
    {
        return(fibo(num - 1) + fibo(num - 2));
    }
}
$ cc pgm9.c
$ a.out
Enter the nth number in fibonacci series: 8
The 8 number in fibonacci series is 21
 
$ a.out
Enter the nth number in fibonacci series: 12
The 12 number in fibonacci series is 144