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Difference tables don't operate on a "pattern"- they simply take the difference of the two terms above.
by req2 17y ago
Difference tables don't operate on a "pattern"- they simply take the difference of the two terms above.
- jacobolus 17y agoNo, but the point is that using a difference table to find the "next term" in a sequence is rather stupid if the difference table doesn't terminate until you run out of terms.... the implication of that is that you have a sequence which cannot actually be fully described via that difference table.