How to write the Fibonacci Sequence?

Question

I had originally coded the program wrongly. Instead of returning the Fibonacci numbers between a range (ie. startNumber 1, endNumber 20 should = only those numbers between 1

Answer 1

A more detailed explanation of how Memoization works for Fibonacci sequence.

# Fibonacci sequence Memoization

fib_cache = {0:0, 1:1}

def fibonacci(n):
    if n < 0:
        return -1
    if fib_cache.has_key(n):
        print "Fibonacci sequence for %d = %d cached" % (n, fib_cache[n])
        return fib_cache[n]
    else:
        fib_cache[n] = fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)
    return fib_cache[n]

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print fibonacci(6)
    print fib_cache
    # fibonacci(7) reuses fibonacci(6) and fibonacci(5)
    print fibonacci(7)
    print fib_cache