Problem 42647. Recursion - Fun

Created by Manish Joshi

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 Generate the first k terms in the sequence a(n) define recursively by

 a(n+1)=p*a(n)+(1+a(n)) with p=0.9 and a(1)=0.5

Test Case

    n = 2;
    a = [a(1) a(2)] = [0.5000    1.9500]

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Guillaume on 3 Dec 2015

The difficulty with this problem is not generating the sequence, that is trivial, but to conform to the completely arbitrary and inaccurate rounding rules of the test suite.

bainhome on 26 Jun 2018

Something I really want to tell the one who create this problem: base on this test suite you just made, I'm positively sure that you've learned your lesson in gym class.

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William on 10 Apr 2016

Check your y_correct for x=20 for extraneous whitespace characters.

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