The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences

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The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences

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The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences | Quanta Magazine

www.quantamagazine.org

Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians.

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