Abstract
Given k ≥ 2, let an be the sequence defined by the recurrence an = α1an–1 + … + αkan–k for n ≥ k, with initial values a0 = a1 = … = ak–2 = 0 and ak–1 = 1. We show under a couple of assumptions concerning the constants αi that the ratio
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