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Some inventions operate in a recursive or iterative manner. This could be so of a machine that repeats actions or functions on a single article or to produce multiple articles, or operates on data.

I am working on a project for my assembly language programming class and the prof has us writing a program to calculate fibonacci numbers but we need to make only 1 recursive call. Here is my ...