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Recursive descriptions include things like "Take the previous number of blocks and add n" and "Take the previous number of toothpicks and add 4." Closed-form descriptions include things like "The number of toothpicks is given by the formula T = 4n + 2" and "The number of blocks in the nth staircase is given by the formula n * (n + 1) / 2."

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