Implement a fibonacci function which calculates the nth number of the fibonacci sequence.

def fib(n):  if n <= 1:    return n  else:    return(fib(n-1) + fib(n-2))
This is the code for a very basic version. This coud be used to explain how recursion works thanks to a relatively easy example.

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