"Cascaded sums"?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg59190] "Cascaded sums"?
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 01:05:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Stanford University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
A Mathematic calculation is yielding a result of the form (x^4 + a (x^3 + a (x^2 + a ( x + a )))) for the case n = 4, and analogous results for larger n; and Mathematica seems to be able to do some interesting simplifications and factoring of these results. I'm sure I learned about this form in a math class somewhere along the line, but this was 50+ years ago. Could some kind soul remind me of what this form is called, and maybe some of its interesting properties? Thanks . . .