mdorrance / fibber

Fibbonacci Sequence

The Fibbonacci sequence is a simple numeric sequence that comes up frequently in Computer Science and design tasks. Let's write a generator that can tell us an arbitrary quantity of numbers in the sequence.

##To Play

After you git clone the repository, cd fibber and type ruby fibber.rb and follow the prompts. Enjoy!

Theory

The sequence begins with the numbers 0 and 1. From there, each element is the sum of the previous two elements.

Start with 0 and 1
0 plus 1 is (1)
1 plus 1 is (2)
1 plus 2 is (3)
2 plus 3 is (5)
3 plus 5 is (8)
5 plus 8 is (13)
8 plus 13 is (21)

So the sequence starts 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21.

Template

quantity = 15

# your code here

Challenge 1: Jagged Output

Output should come in rows of five elements. Running the program with quantity set to fifteen would output the following:

0 1 1 2 3
5 8 13 21 34
55 89 144 233 377

Challenge 2: Better Output

Our columns are kinda ugly. Let's pad each number into a four-character string so we get output like this:

   0    1    1    2    3
   5    8   13   21   34
  55   89  144  233  377

Challenge 3: Fancy Output

That works great until we want to output four-digit numbers in the sequence -- they'd start bumping into each other.

Can you output your sequence such that each element is padded to a string with a size one greater than the number of digits in the last element that will be output? So if the biggest number you'll output is three digits, each element of the sequence is padded to four places. But if the last element is four digits, each element is padded to five places.