Project Euler #002 – question

Project Euler
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Hello, Everyone.

The second challenge of Project Euler looks a bit weird to me (description below).

“Problem 2: Even Fibonacci Numbers
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, …
By considering the terms in the Fibonacci sequence whose values do not exceed n, find the sum of the even-valued terms.”

Why “fiboEvenSum(60)” should return 44, for example?

My code:

function fiboEvenSum(n) {

    let fibos = [0, 1];
    let evenFibos = [];
    let sumOfEvenFibos = 0;

    for (let k=1; k < n; k++) {
        fibos.push(fibos[k] + fibos[k-1])
      }  

    for (let j=0; j<fibos.length; j++) {
      if ( fibos[j] % 2 != 0 && fibos[j] <= n)  {
        evenFibos.push(fibos[j])
        sumOfEvenFibos += fibos[j]
      }
    }

    console.log(fibos);
    console.log(evenFibos);
    console.log("Result:", sumOfEvenFibos)
    return sumOfEvenFibos;
  }

fiboEvenSum(60);

My output is:
[1, 1, 3, 5, 13, 21, 55]
Result: 99

Here, the 55 is included, since it’s smaller than n (which is 60 , in this case).
What am I missing here?

Any help is welcome.
Thanks!

2

You have the odd valued terms.

Side note - I’d ditch the array since you are only using 2 values from the array.

3

Thanks! How dumb of me :nerd_face:

Regarding the array, I’m not just using 2 values. I’m iterating over these values to build the Fibonacci array, over which I iterate to filter the odd values.

I tried using only one array to do the whole thing, but it didn’t work :unamused:

4

You are only using two values here. You only need two values at a time to make this all work.

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