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A recurrence relation question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Sat Mar 25 17:26:32 2000
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:50:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
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This isn't obviously crypto-related, but I'll explain if there's a simple
solution.
Given that f(x+1) = f(x) * f(x) + c, does anybody know how to express f(x)
in closed form?
-Bram Cohen
