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fibonacci nprocedure

Computes the nth Fibonacci number.

This naïve algorithm runs in O(2^n); using e.g. memoization, we could bring it down to O(n).

n
The nth number to calculate
(define (fibonacci n)
  (case n ((0) 0) ((1) 1) (else (+ (fibonacci (- n 1)) (fibonacci (- n 2))))))