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Under constant-cost lookup and integer addition, Memoized Fibonacci evaluation has time complexity $O(n)$ in Big O notation, retaining $O(n)$ values. A hash table needs its own lookup-cost assumptions; an array indexed by $0,\dots ,n$ avoids hash collisions in this example. Memoization removes repeated bodies, but also pays for keys, lookups and retained answers. A workload without reuse can pay those costs without saving evaluations.

The call stack remains. Left-first recursion descends through arguments $n,n-1,\dots ,1$ before returning, giving $n$ simultaneously active frames for $n\ge 2$. Therefore the auxiliary space complexity includes $O(n)$ frames as well as $O(n)$ table entries in the constant-size-value model. An iterative bottom-up dynamic programming calculation removes these recursive frames; retaining only the two previous Fibonacci numbers suffices when only the final value is wanted, but discards the table useful for later requests.

Exact Fibonacci numbers do not remain constant-size values. For $k\ge 2$, the recurrence relation gives $2^{(k-2)/2}\le F_k\le 2^{k-1}$, so the representation of $F_k$ as a binary number has order $k$ bits. With ordinary addition costing order $k$ bit operations on such operands, the $n-1$ additions cost order $n^2$ bit operations in total. Retaining all values also requires order $n^2$ bits of value storage, before keys and frame overhead. The linear bound counts additions under its stated cost model; it is not a linear bound on exact integer arithmetic in bits.^[ref]

Interpret $x_1,\dots ,x_n$ as the bits of a binary number, with $x_1$ most significant. Construct a propositional formula saying that this number is strictly less than $k$. This gives a quadratic-size formula with prescribed model count.

For $0<k<2^n$, write $k=(b_1\cdots b_n{)}_2$. For each $i$ with $b_i=1$, define the conjunctionThe empty prefix for $i=1$ is omitted. Let ${\phi }_k={\bigvee }_{i:b_i=1}{T}_i$. A Boolean valuation satisfies $T_i$ exactly when its first difference from the binary representation of $k$ is at position $i$, changing a one of $k$ to a zero. All later bits are unrestricted. Hence these cases are disjoint and cover exactly the numbers $0,\dots ,k-1$.

Alternatively, counting the disjoint cases directly givesEach $T_i$ has length $O(i)$, including its logical connectives and parentheses; the total length is at most a constant multiple of ${\sum }_{i=1}^{n}i=O(n^2)$. The endpoints are ${\phi }_0=\perp$ and ${\phi }_{2^n}=\top$. If constants are unavailable and $n\ge 1$, use $x_1\wedge \neg x_1$ and $x_1\vee \neg x_1$ instead. Assignments are counted over all $n$ specified variables, including any absent from the formula. For $n=0$, the constants describe the two possible counts, zero and one. Thus the construction covers $0\le k\le 2^n$, including the endpoint zero despite the source's word “positive”.

For example, $n=4,k=11=(1011{)}_2$ gives the disjoint cases $0\ast \ast \ast$, $100\ast$ and $1010$, with $8+2+1=11$ satisfying assignments.

Repeated integer division by two generates the binary digits from least significant to most significant. Reverse the accumulated characters once, and treat zero separately.

def binaryCon(n: Int): String = {
  require(n >= 0, "n must be nonnegative")
  if (n == 0) return "0"
  var remaining = n
  val digits = new StringBuilder
  while (remaining > 0) {
    digits.append(if (remaining % 2 == 0) '0' else '1')
    remaining /= 2
  }
  digits.reverse.toString
}

Zero produces "0"; positive inputs produce a binary number without leading zeros. No library routine performs the number-to-base conversion. Appending to the builder and reversing once gives linear work in the number of binary digits and uses that much output storage.

For each $0\le k\le 2^n$, a propositional formula over $n$ specified variables can have exactly $k$ satisfying assignments and length $O(n^2)$. For $0<k<2^n$, interpret a Boolean valuation as the binary number $x_1\cdots x_n$ and test whether it is less than $k=b_1\cdots b_n$.

For every position $i$ with $b_i=1$, use a conjunction asserting that all earlier bits equal $b_j$ and $x_i=0$, leaving later bits unrestricted. Take the disjunction of these terms. Each satisfying assignment has a unique first differing position, so the terms are disjoint, and their counts sum to ${\sum }_{i:b_i=1}{2}^{n-i}=k$. Their combined length is $O(1+2+\cdots +n)=O(n^2)$. Use logical falsity and logical truth at the two endpoints. The count is over all $n$ variables, including those absent from an individual term or from the whole formula.

The typical sequence theorem turns a probability concentration into a coding construction. Assign one binary number index to each weakly typical sequence, plus a reserved index for every word outside the set. The decoder recovers every typical word exactly; the reserved index has one predetermined output. The block code usesbits and has reconstruction-error probability at most $1-P(T_{\epsilon }^{(n)})$.

For this example and $\epsilon =0.1$, $n=40$ needs 34 bits but permits error up to about $0.3611$. At $n=640$, 570 bits suffice and the error bound is about $0.0002215$. These are existence calculations for an explicitly enumerated collection, rather than claims about an efficient practical encoder. The reduction comes from protecting the whole high-probability collection, rather than just its single most likely member.