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Re: finding explicit rule for series

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• Subject: [mg52067] Re: [mg52043] finding explicit rule for series
• From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
• Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:37:12 -0500 (EST)
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Uwe Ziegenhagen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i have a series of numbers and would like to use Mathematica to find the 
> explicit algorithm in that way:
> 
> n(i)=5342543+n(i-1)....
> 
> I already spent some time with the manual, but didn't find anything.
> 
> Uwe
> 

If you want to find a minimal length linear recurrence from a list of 
numbers you can use code posted at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&threadm=108qa91a2qimp77%40corp.supernews.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dsci.math.symbolic%26safe%3Doff%26start%3D450

I should point out that I have no reason to believe that code comprises 
the most efficient way to do this sort of thing.


Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research

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