generating function

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Noun

generating function (plural generating functions)

  1. (mathematics) a formal power series with one indeterminate, whose coefficients encode information about a sequence of numbers that is indexed by the natural numbers

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Hyponyms

  • exponential generating function
  • moment generating function

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