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THIS SHORT APPENDIX looks at various so-called difference equations. We encountered such equations when discussing the Tower of Hanoi and Chinese Rings in the final lecture. We also illustrate the technique on the Fibonacci numbers and raise a problem regarding hats.
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Barnes, J. (2016). Differences. In: Nice Numbers. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46831-0_17
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