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- From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Binomial like recurrence
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.092818.6054@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 09:28:18 -0500
- References: <1992Aug12.100933.13400@aifh.ed.ac.uk> <1992Aug12.171516.24574@menudo.uh.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug12.171516.24574@menudo.uh.edu>, rmverma@cs.uh.edu (Dr. R.M. Verma) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug12.100933.13400@aifh.ed.ac.uk> tw@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Toby Walsh) writes:
- >>
- >>Has the related recurrence,
- >>
- >> u(n,k) = 2.u(n-1,k-1) + u(n-1,k)
- >>
- >>been studied? Does it have a closed form?
- >>What is its asymptotic behaviour?
- >>
- >>And more generally, how about,
- >>
- >> v(n,k) = a.v(n-1,k-1) + b.v(n-1,k)
- >>
- >>for integer a and b?
- >>
- >>toby
- >
- > Yes, they have been studied and there are answers to some of your
- > questions in the literature.
- >
- > See the paper by Monier in Journal of ALgorithms 1980, and
- > Ch. 8 of The Analysis of Algorithms by Purdom and Brown (more references
- > can be found here).
-
- Please don't forget the wide range of interesting materials put out by the
- Fibonacci Society.
-
- >
- > I would like to know your reason for studying them.
- >
- > R.M. Verma
-
- I'd love to know also, this is near my favorite playground.
-
- jim kraai
-