A NOTE ON DIFFERENCE SEQUENCES

  • Park, Jin-Woo (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY)
  • Published : 2009.08.31

Abstract

It is well known that for a sequence a = ($a_0,\;a_1$,...) the general term of the dual sequence of a is $a_n\;=\;c_0\;^n_0\;+\;c_1\;^n_1\;+\;...\;+\;c_n\;^n_n$, where c = ($c_0,...c_n$ is the dual sequence of a. In this paper, we find the general term of the sequence ($c_0,\;c_1$,... ) and give another method for finding the inverse matrix of the Pascal matrix. And we find a simple proof of the fact that if the general term of a sequence a = ($a_0,\;a_1$,... ) is a polynomial of degree p in n, then ${\Delta}^{p+1}a\;=\;0$.

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References

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