Relationship between one or more independent variables, one or more dependent variables, and differences of those variables
Also known as recursion equation
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In mathematics, a recurrence relation is an equation according to which the th term of a sequence is equal to some combination of the previous terms. Often, only previous terms of the sequence appear in the equation, for a parameter that is independent of ; this number is called the order of the relation. If the values of the first numbers in the sequence have been given, the rest of the sequence can be calculated by repeatedly applying the equation.