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A family of meta-Fibonacci sequences defined by variable order recursions

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We define a family of meta-Fibonacci sequences where the order of the of recursion at stage n is a variable r(n), and the n^{th} term of a sequence is the sum of the previous r(n) terms. For the terms of any such sequence, we give upper and lower bounds which depend only on r(n).

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@article{arxiv.math/0508522,
  title  = {A family of meta-Fibonacci sequences defined by variable order recursions},
  author = {Nathaniel D. Emerson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0508522},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages, this version includes a correction to Corollary 2.15