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What software do you use and would recommend for solving recurrence relations?

For example mathematica has RSolve:

$ a(n+1)-2 a(n) = 1$ for $a(n)$:

RSolve[a[n + 1] - 2 a[n] == 1, a[n], n] -> a(n) = c 2^(n-1)+2^n-1 

Are there any good (preferably open) alternatives?

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    As you say Mathematica has a built in function, but even though it's not open source, you can still program it, right?2011-02-28

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WolframAlpha does an okay job.

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    Indeed but you can not program it.2011-02-28