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Question: Attempt at solving a recursive equation or getting value.

Question:Attempt at solving a recursive equation or getting value.

max125 160 Maple 2019
homework recursion
October 21 2019
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The problem is to find a100 for a sequence defined as follows.


https://snipboard.io/AdZKX5.jpg I tried the following command for a recursive sequence.
(I used 10 instead of 100 to test run it).

a||1:=1;
for n from 2 to 10 do a||n:=2*sum( a||i ,i=1..n)^2/(2*sum( a||i ,i=1..n)-1); od;

This approach did not work. It says "error recursive assignment"

Any ideas how to get a(100), also if its possible how to solve the recursive sequence explicitly.

I tried rsolve :

rsolve({ f(n)=(2*sum(f(i),i=1..n)^2/(2*sum(f(i),i=1..n)-1)),f(1)=1},f(n))
rsolve({ f(n)=(2*sum(f(i),i=1..n)^2/(2*sum(f(i),i=1..n)-1)),f(1)=1},f(n))

It just returned back the expression inertly.

 
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