Re: suite

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, adel.essafi wrote:

> hi list
> please, how can I define a suite in octave
> U(n+1)=3*U(n)+2 (for example)
> and calculate u(1000)

A simple method:

n=1000;
U=zeros(1,n);
U0=4; #or whatever you want
U(1)=3*U0+2;
for i=2:n,
  U(i)=3*U(i-1)+2;
end

That would work, but there are probably much nicer ways to do this and 
other people will have more sophisticated ideas than mine!

Mike



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