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The Pell Numbers

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Introduction

The Pell(no, not Bell) Numbers are a simple, Fibonacci-like sequence, defined by the following relation:

$P_n=\begin{cases}0&\mbox{if }n=0;\\1&\mbox{if }n=1;\\2P_{n-1}+P_{n-2}&\mbox{otherwise.}\end{cases}$

They also have a closed form:

$P_n=\frac{\left(1+\sqrt2\right)^n-\left(1-\sqrt2\right)^n}{2\sqrt2}$

And a matrix multiplication based form, for the daring:

$\begin{pmatrix} P_{n+1} & P_n \\ P_n & P_{n-1} \end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} 2 & 1 \\ 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}^n.$

Challenge

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do any one of the following:

  1. Given $n$, calculate the $n^{th}$ term of the sequence (0 or 1-indexed).

  2. Given $n$, calculate the first $n$ elements of the sequence.

  3. Output the sequence indefinitely.

Scoring

This is code-golf. Shortest answer in each language wins.

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Python 3, 39 bytes

f=lambda x:x if x<2else 2*f(x-1)+f(x-2)

Generic recursive implementation

Try it online!

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Razetime‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Not sure why short circuiting isn't working here: Try it online!

Hakerh400‭ wrote about 3 years ago

@Razetime‭ Because when x=0 the condition (x<2and x) evaluates to 0, which is falsy, so or can't short-circuit.