Difference and functional equations Difference equations: basic notions Concept
Order of a difference equation
Summary
The order of a difference equation is the gap between the largest and the smallest index of the unknown sequence that occur in it. When the equation can be solved for its highest term, the order is the number of initial values needed to fix a solution. It plays the role that the order of a differential equation plays for derivatives.
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