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Point being, you must include the starting number in any recursive definition. Recursive Definition. 1  1) An initial condition that tells where the sequence starts.  2) A recursion formula that tells how any term of the sequence relates to the preceding term.
See also Explicit formula. Recursive Formula. For a sequence a 1, a 2, a 3, . . . , a n, . . . a recursive formula is a formula that requires the computation of all previous terms in order to find the value of a n.