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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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Series defined by a fixed-point functional equation

You can get recurrence relations for the coefficients by considering, for each monomial, which lower degree monomials will contribute to its coefficient. For example, suppose we want to find the coe …
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