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A generating function is a way of encoding an infinite sequence of numbers by treating them as the coefficients of a formal power series. Tag questions involving generating functions in this.

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Software for recognizing algebraic or D-finite formal power series

Fricas is good at that. It can be accessed via sage, once installed. sage: L=[catalan_number(i) for i in range(20)] sage: fricas.guessHolo(L) …
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an algebra generated by some known series

This has been considered by Dimitri Zvonkine, see his article "An algebra of power series arising in the intersection theory of moduli spaces of curves and in the enumeration of ramified coverings of …
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A continued J fraction for $a_n = \frac{1}{(n+1)^2}$?

Sagemath can do that too sage: x = PowerSeriesRing(QQ,'x').gen() sage: f = sum(x**n/(n+1)**2 for n in range(20)).O(20) sage: f.jacobi_continued_fraction() ((-1/4, -7/144), (-13/28, -647/110 …
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