[SciPy-user] Solving "difference" equations

[Robert Kern]

Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Dear Scipy users,
> I would like to know whether SciPy has a facility allowing one to
> solve discrete-time difference equations. For example, equations like
> the following:
> 
> y[n] = y[n - 1] + x[n], n is an integer.
> 
> I tried using odeint, but it solves it as a continuous time equation
> (or so I think...). Setting hmax to 1.0 also doesn't help.
> 
> What is the right way?

Difference equations are rather trivial to do yourself via a for-loop. I
don't think there are any special algorithms that need to be applied.

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