Terminology for sub-sequences
I'm just wondering what the proper names are for a few things. Clarification would be appreciated please.
Suppose I have a sequence:
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,...
Now suppose I construct a subsequence of only the even terms: 2,8,34,... Firstly, that is considered a subsequence, right? Or is it something else? Is it right to say that it is a "subsequence of sequential even numbers"? Or how should I say that?
Now suppose I construct a subsequence of a few terms that appear together in the sequence: 1,2,3,5 and I wanted to describe such a subsequence. I would say, "let a_0, .. , a_3 be a ?? subsequence".. where ?? is one of {consecutive, sequential, adjacent, neighboring}. How do I refer to that to distinguish it from the first subsequence I built? Or if I just want to say, "let a,b be two ___ terms of the sequence".
When we're talking about integers, I would say that 1,2,3 are consecutive integers, 2,3,5 are not consecutive but they are sequential with respect to the Fibonacci sequence. Is that right?
Thanks in advance.
Posted Nov 4, 2010, 1:03 AM UTC