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Challenge #463: Let Designer Calculate the Pell Number Sequence!

dillon_bok
8 - Asteroid
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 Fun challenge!

NaiLo
8 - Asteroid

My gut deceptively wanted me to try this with an iterative macro until (see spoiler)

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I remembered you can do more than a one step prior reference in the multi row tool :)
Luke_C
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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mithalimanjunath
5 - Atom

This was a fun challenge!

tammybrown_tds
9 - Comet

I had forgotten how fast Pell Sequence numbers can grow.

 

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Hub119
11 - Bolide
11 - Bolide

Solution attached.

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dfuhriman
7 - Meteor
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Yoshiro_Fujimori
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

My solution.

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Multi-Row Formula
Pell_Sequence = 
  IF [RowCount] = 1 THEN 0
  ELSEIF [RowCount] = 2 THEN 1
  ELSE 2 * [Row-1:Pell_Sequence] + [Row-2:Pell_Sequence]
  ENDIF
alineruizcampos
8 - Asteroid
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AkimasaKajitani
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

My solution!

 

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My not use Multi-Row Formula solution.

 

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Loop Expression

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