"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote > So should I change "series" with "sequence"? How about what I called > "ClosedFormSeries"? By that I meant a series, (pardon, sequence), in which > there is no recurrence formula - the nth element a_n can be expressed in > terms of n and a[0], ..., a[k] (a sort of "random access" for a sequence). > > So, what names should I use? English-speaking mathematicians across the > newsgroup, unite!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrence_relation I'd say recurrence!(...) possibly? But definitely a range is analagous to a sequence defined in math (as defined by wikipedia). -Steve
