For questions about defining recursive functions, recursive algorithms and solving recursive equations (e.g, with `RSolve`)
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While-Loop Linear Projection
I'm would like to do a linear progression for a recursive relation of a consumption function. Combining my program skills and my sparse knowledge of mathematica, I was thinking about doing it in a ...
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Unwanted hold in recursive function
I have a function (let it be called f) that does something useful for me and I want to be able to apply it to the elements of a list regardless of their depth and keep the list structure. For example ...
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Recursion evaluate Table power exceeded limit
I wrote 2 simple recursive functions for calculating the power of a table.
pol3[Tb_List, n_Integer?Positive] := If[n == 1, Tb, Tb.pol3[Tb, n - 1]]
and
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RSolve doesn't solve this recurrence equation
RSolve[{1 == b ((c k[t - 1]^a - k[t])/(c k[t]^a - k[t + 1])) c a k[t]^(a - 1),
k[1] == b, k[3] == a}, k[t], t]
I tried to read the documentation in Help ...
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List of Tribonacci Polynomials with Mathematica? [duplicate]
I want to list top ten of Tribonacci polynomials. I have following algorithm, but it doesnt work.
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Recursion on a moving window
I need to apply some computations to a moving window of $N$ items in a time series and I am struggling with doing recursion and shifting the considered window.
To illustrate, please consider the ...
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Creating Recursive Sequences
Quite a simple question, I reckon, however, even quite an extensive search hasn't helped me.
I want to define a recursively defined sequence that starts with defined ...
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How to solve a problem in relative motion?
I have a project due tomorrow that I have been struggling with for a month. I am utterly stumped, any help would be appreciated. The problem is:
There is a ferris wheel, 30m in radius, set 80m ...
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Mathematica cannot compute this recursive sequence [closed]
Basically I want to compute $x_{n+1} = (1/2)(x_n + 5/x_n)$.
On Mathematica, I wrote
h[1] := 2
h[n_] := h[n + 1] = (1/2)*(h[n] + 5/h[n])
h[2]
When I tried to ...
