Apr 8 2009

Project Euler Problem 2 Solution

by Ash • Project Euler • Tags: , 0 Comments

Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be:

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ...

Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the sequence which do not exceed four million.

My solution in Ruby:

t1, t2, even_sums = 1, 2, 2
loop do
  temp = t1 + t2
  break if temp > 3999999
  even_sums += temp if temp % 2 == 0
  t1 = t2
  t2 = temp
end
 
puts even_sums