An evening wasted with recurrence relations

[fivemack]

It's full of maths, so I've written it up in TeX; I'm never very sure on doing diagrams in TeX, so the diagrams are in an Excel file.

There's also some code (TeX source, magma, c++).

The code [small .tgz file]; is it not disheartening how what feels like quite a productive evening produces only a few kilobytes of .tgz?

The Excel spreadsheet containing the hopefully-illuminating diagrams. Done in OfficeX on the Mac, but it ought to load into Office 97 or any subsequent.

Admiring Audience: where should I go next?

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[tombee.livejournal.com]

in answer to your first question, yes you can, and you've even shown how- eg:: x^(2N -1) - x^(N) +x +1 for increasing N. Moving outside the unit circle the x^2N-1 term dominates with increasing rapidity.

Trouble is this isn't that exciting, as you need to specify an awful lot of terms. Louisa also says hi.