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Chapter 12 Computational Models with Arithmetic Growth 161
12.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
12.2 Mathematical Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
12.2.1 Difference Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
12.2.2 Functional Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
12.3 Models with Arithmetic Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
12.4 Using the C Programming Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
12.5 Producing the Charts of the Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
12.6 Validation of a Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Exercises ...