I'm currently in a Discrete Mathematics class in college, and my professor is giving a quiz soon and told us what will be on it.
Problem is, I missed a day of class and I have no idea to figure out what he was saying when he gave us this problem:
Describe the sequence $X_{n+1} = (Ax_n + b) \mod p$
Is there a common name for this / what am I supposed to do here? I've done a couple of google searches but found nothing; I was hoping some of you might be able to clarify what this means.
Thank you in advance!
Edit: I think $p$ is meant to be interpreted as a prime number.