Finally, the fog lasting for days went away this morning and the sun comes out. It’s a lovely winter day. After taking a walk after lunch, I feel like doing some math. So, here comes the 25th Euler problem.

The Fibonacci sequence is defined by the recurrence relation: F_n = F_n1 + F_n2, where F₁ = 1 and F₂ = 1. What is the first term in the Fibonacci sequence to contain 1000 digits?

Well, it’s a simple Fibonacci problem, which I have solved several times before. The only issue is that I have to deal with big integers. For the reason of convenience, I’m gonna use the helpful “gmp” package, again. Hope nobody minds :p

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library(gmp)
first <- as.bigz(1)
second <- as.bigz(1)
third <- first + second
n <- 2
 
while(nchar(as.character(third)) < 1000) {
  n <- n + 1
  third <- first + second
  first <- second
  second <- third
}
 
cat("The result is:", n, "\n")