How to sum the previous 4 terms of a series?

Sorry if this is a basic question, but i am just beginning to learn matlab. I want to sum the previous 4 terms of a sequence [0,1,2,3,6,12...] and calculate up to 20 of these "four previous # sums". How would I do this?

Answer 1

[Drishti]

Hi Shazil,

To compute a new term in the sequence using the previous four terms, you can use iterative statements such as the 'for' loop in MATLAB.

For better understanding you can refer to the MATLAB Documentation of 'for' loop:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024b/matlab/ref/for.html

Furthermore, you can refer to the below code snippet to get started with your solution:

% for calculating a new term in the sequence
nextTerm = sum(sequence(i-4:i-1));

I hope this helps in resolving your query.