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Revision as of 16:35, 19 June 2006
Recursion is defining something in terms of a previous term, function, etc. For example, the famous Fibonacci sequence is defined recursively. If we let 
be the nth term, the sequence is: 
, and so on. A recursive definition is: 
. That is a symbolic way to say "The next term is the sum of the two previous terms".
Examples
- A combinatorical use of recursion: AIME 2006I/11
- Use of recursion to compute an explicit formula: AIME 2006I/13
