Describing sequences involves finding a general formula that can predict any term in the sequence based on its position. This formula allows us to understand the underlying pattern and extrapolate to ...

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Eddie Possehl is a dynamic and driven writer/director with a passion for the written word and all things film, television, comics, and games. His passion for storytelling led him to establish his own ...

Say you’re at a party with nine other people and everyone shakes everyone else’s hand exactly once. How many handshakes take place? This is the “handshake problem,” and it’s one of my favorites. As a ...

Orangutan calls have a complex structure that was thought to be unique to human language. Short sequences are nested inside longer sequences, much like the way we assemble long sentences from shorter ...

Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. Simple, yes, but ...

A finite series is a summation of a specified number of terms in a sequence, often represented mathematically as the sum of a_i, where i ranges from 1 to n. The subject of finite series proves to be ...

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what ...

Abstract: An exact recursive formula is derived to describe the structure of an ideal first-order /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ output sequence as a function of its input. Specifically, it is shown that ...