The tutor shows how to find the general solution to the recurrence relation from last post. In my previous post I posed the recurrence relation 2an+1 – an = 3, a0=12 then generated the first few terms: The general solution …

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The tutor introduces a first degree non-homogeneous recurrence relation. An equation that describes a list of terms by a relationship among consecutive ones is called a recurrence relation. Some people call it a difference equation. An example: 17an+1 – 5an …

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