Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in ...

An arithmetic sequence is one where the difference between one term and the next is always the same. For arithmetic sequences, to go from any term to the next the rule is to always add or subtract the ...

When someone is saving money in equal instalments, the cumulative savings at each savings period form an arithmetic sequence. If the driver of a vehicle is travelling down a highway at a constant ...

A recurrence relation is an equation that specifies one (or more) known terms in a sequence and then a rule for calculating the next term in the sequence. If the initial value in a recurrence relation ...

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The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

Each term in this sequence is doubling (multiplying by 2) to create the next term. Number sequences are sets of numbers that follow a pattern or a rule. If the rule is to multiply or divide by a ...