
Chapter 13
Computational Models with Quadratic
Growth
13.1 Introduction
A computational model with quadratic growth is one in which the differences
in the data are not constant but growing in some regular manner. Recall that with
arithmetic growth these differences are constant. This chapter presents an introduc-
tion to computational models in which the differences in the data follow a pattern of
arithmetic growth.
This chapter explains the computation of difference and functional equations;
their use in the mathematical model is illustrated with a few examples. A complete
computational model implemented with the C programming language is presented
and ...