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Consider the recurrence relation above for

If

, where

and

is an odd integer, then find

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From which it follows that:

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The previous equation gives a telescoping product for

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Let

Then we can rewrite equation as:

Now you can easily see that:

Putting

and

you can calculate:

and

And you will get:

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