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generating function

A formal power series that files a whole sequence as coefficients of x^n.

The ordinary generating function of a sequence a_0,a_1,a_2,\ldots is the formal power series \sum_{n\ge0}a_nx^n, treated as bookkeeping rather than a function to evaluate.

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