CALCULUS Understanding
Its Concepts and Methods
CALCULUS Understanding
Its Concepts and Methods
Recursive definition
When each term of a sequence is given by a fixed formula involving preceding terms, we say that we have a recursive definition of the sequence.
For
example,
is
a recursive definition of the sequence
.
The Fibonacci sequence is defined by
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