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The geometric unfolding of recurrence relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2020

Stan Dolan
Stan Dolan*
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In 1942 R. C. Lyness challenged readers of the Gazette to find a recurrence relation of order 2 which would generate a cycle of period 7 for almost all initial values [1].

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 104 , Issue 561 , November 2020 , pp. 403 - 411
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