Formal Definitions
Formally, Sylvester's sequence can be defined by the formula
The product of an empty set is 1, so s0 = 2.
Alternatively, one may define the sequence by the recurrence
- with s0 = 2.
It is straightforward to show by induction that this is equivalent to the other definition.
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