What does AP stand for?

Arithmetic Progression

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What could be a more natural arithmetic progression than another in 2009?

SIDEWAYS GLANCE KINANE'S TIME

An arithmetic progression (AP) is a sequence of numbers having the same difference between every pair of successive numbers.

The twelve days of Christmas

Locate a point (p, q) in the Cartesian plane with integral values, such that for any line through (p, q) expressed in the general form ax + by = c, the coefficients a, b, c form an arithmetic progression.

Problems section

You could see if your students could discover that the number of fish for any value of C is C(C+1)/2, a well-known formula from arithmetic progressions which your students will meet later on in their mathematics courses, and is the formula for triangular numbers.

Experiments with patterns

They announced that they had found seven consecutive primes in arithmetic progression.

Progressing to a set of consecutive primes

Finally any arithmetic progression can be displayed from the general use of absolute references.

Laboratory mathematics