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Computing Fermat Numbers
A procedure to compute the
nth
Fermat number.
(define fermat-number ;
computes the nth
(lambda (n) ;
Fermat number
(+
(repeatedly-square 2 n)
1)))
where
(repeatedly-square b n)
returns the result of squaring
b
n
times.
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