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Finding a Linear Recurrence Relation
A model for the number of lobsters caught per year is
based on the assumption that the number of lobsters
caught in a year is the average of the number caught in
the two previous years.
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Having a lot of trouble solving this recurrence with iteration and finding a closed form…
I'm learning discrete math and didn't have any trouble with any recurrences in the examples I went over through the chapters on it, but this one problem at the end of the first chapter is killing me, ...
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Can this series be expressed in closed form, and if so, what is it?
Can this series be expressed in closed form, and if so, what is it?
$$
\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{9^{n+1}-1}
$$
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Closed-form Expression for $\sum_{j=0}^{k-1}(2j+2)\sum_{i=1}^j \frac 1 {i^2}$? (problem with Mathematica)
I need to calculate a closed-form expression for $\sum_{j=0}^{k-1}(2j+2)\sum_{i=1}^j \frac 1 {i^2}$. This isn't particularly difficult, and I do it by hand pretty much routinely.
However I found out ...
