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Practice problem

Recursive Sequences

By Cameron Montag

Suppose we have a sequence and a function ff such that, for n≥1n \ge 1, an=f(an−1)a_n = f(a_{n-1}). If a0=aka_0 = a_k for some kk, is this sequence necessarily periodic?

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