Definition of Sequences by Recursion on the Natural Numbers

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Given a starting point and a rule producing the next term from the index and the current term, there is exactly one sequence with that first term that obeys the rule.

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Let $\mathbb{N}$ be the set of natural numbers with successor map $S$ as in that definition, let $X$ be a set, let $a\in X$ , and let $f:\mathbb{N}\times X\to X$ be a map.

¶Then there is exactly one sequence $\sigma:\mathbb{N}\to X$ such that

\sigma(1)=a\qquad\text{and}\qquad\sigma(S(n))=f\bigl(n,\sigma(n)\bigr)\quad\text{for every }n\in\mathbb{N}.

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