[Haskell-cafe] Question about memory usage

[Antoine Latter]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> This neatly leads us back to my second assertion: In all my years of
> computer programming, I've never seen one single program that actually
> *needs* the Fibonacci numbers in the first place (let alone in
> arbitrary-precision).
>

I think there are variants on AVL trees that use something related to
a Fibonacci sequence for balancing. I don't remember the details,
though.

Antoine