ch-ch-update: series, closed-form series, and strides

[Steven Schveighoffer]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote
> So should I change "series" with "sequence"? How about what I called 
> "ClosedFormSeries"? By that I meant a series, (pardon, sequence), in which 
> there is no recurrence formula - the nth element a_n can be expressed in 
> terms of n and a[0], ..., a[k] (a sort of "random access" for a sequence).
>
> So, what names should I use? English-speaking mathematicians across the 
> newsgroup, unite!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrence_relation

I'd say recurrence!(...) possibly?  But definitely a range is analagous to a 
sequence defined in math (as defined by wikipedia).

-Steve