Consider a walk in the square lattice where the distribution of the fundamental steps is [[[1, 0], 1/4], [[-1, 0], 1/4], [[0, 1], 1/4], [[0, -1], 1/4]] Let a(n) be the probability of being at the origin after n steps. the probability of returning to the origin after n steps . The linear recurrence operator annihilating a_n:= 2 (n + 1) 2 - -------- + N 2 (n + 2) The whole thing took, 2.592, seconds of CPU time