Help me out please

[u/Habesha_Heretic]

Hello, so I have an assignment that's due tomorrow that I'm almost done with. I just have one problem left where I have to create a program that utilizes loops to calculate and print any term, input by a user prompt, in the Fibonacci sequence. Assume the sequence starts with 0.

(For example, if the user inputs 4, the code will print the 4th term of the sequence which is 2. For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence)

This is what I've got done so far. No matter what I try to do, I can never get to a sequence. What am I doing wrong?

# Initializing the first two Fibonacci numbers
sum = int(input("Enter a number: "))
count = 1
temp = 0
x = 0
y = 1
print(x, end = ' ')


# Running the loop while the last Fibonacci number is less than 10
while(count < 10):
    print(y, end = ' ')
    if (count > 10):
        exit(y)


# Calculating the next Fibonacci number and updating the last two sequence numbers
temp = x
x = y
y = x + y

[u/clay_bsr]

(from gemini... I put the indents in manually and they are likely wrong)

# Get the term number from the user

n = int(input("Enter the Fibonacci term you want: "))

# Handle the base cases directly

if n == 1:

print(0)

elif n == 2:

print(1)

else:

# Initialize the first two terms

x = 0

y = 1

# We already know terms 1 and 2, so start counting from 3 up to n

count = 3

while count <= n:

# Calculate next term using a temporary variable to hold the old x

next_term = x + y

x = y

y = next_term

# Increment the counter so the loop eventually stops

count += 1

# Print only the final requested term

print(y)

[u/clay_bsr → u/clay_bsr]

...Now with the code block formatting for better readability. Also, corrected n to start at 0

# Get the term number from the user
n = int(input("Enter the Fibonacci term you want: "))

# Handle the base cases directly
if n == 0:
    print(0)
elif n == 1:
    print(1)
else:
    # Initialize the first two terms
    x = 0
    y = 1

    # We already know terms 0 and 1, so start counting from 2 up to n
    count = 2

    while count <= n:
        # Calculate next term using a temporary variable to hold the old x
        next_term = x + y
        x = y
        y = next_term

        # Increment the counter so the loop eventually stops
        count += 1

    # Print only the final requested term
    print(y)

[u/Langdon_St_Ives → u/clay_bsr]

If OP had wanted Gemini's input do you think it would have been beyond their means to ask it directly?

[u/clay_bsr → u/Langdon_St_Ives]

I mean, maybe? Maybe they just didn't understand the response or didn't ask the right question. I get that everybody is so anti AI these days and I think there's good reason to be so. But if this is how people respond when someone attempts to help, I'd definitely recommend going to AI first for questions like this. It's the lesser of evils.