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<p><big>Definition</big></p>
<p>A recurrence relation is an equation that expresses each element of a <a href="page.php?w=sequence">sequence</a> as a function of the preceding ones. More precisely, in the case where only the immediately preceding element is involved, a recurrence relation has the form<br/>
:where <br/>
:is a function, where  is a set to which the elements of a sequence must belong. For any , this defines a unique sequence with  as its first element, called the initial value.</p>

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