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Averaging sequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Paul Sanders*
Affiliation:
Monmouth School, Almshouse St., Monmouth, Gwent

Extract

Starting with a finite set of numbers {xl, x2, x3, …, xn} we can generate a sequence of numbers {yi} by the rule

so that yi is the average of the previous n terms of the sequence.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1994

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References

1. Andrews, Paul, “The power of spreadsheets”, Micromath 6, No.3.Google Scholar