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Recurrence Relation
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Many counting problems cannot be solved easily using the simple
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Recurrence relations play important roles in the study of algorithms.

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Modeling With Recurrence Relations

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The Tower of Hanoi Puzzle

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A linear homogeneous recurrence relation of degree k with constant
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2. Determine which of these are linear homogeneous recurrence relations

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Solution of Linear Non-homogeneous Recurrence Relations
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