2009-03-14, 11:15 PM
aye, so 0.99999999999999999 was a bad example. Try 1/x as x -> infinity then. That's a converging limit.
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Fun with infinity
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2009-03-14, 11:15 PM
aye, so 0.99999999999999999 was a bad example. Try 1/x as x -> infinity then. That's a converging limit.
2009-03-15, 08:07 AM
Yes while the above statement is occassionally useful, it has nothing to do with the infinity I originally talked about.
2009-03-21, 11:29 PM
Devil's Sunrise Wrote:It doesn't converge to 1, it is 1, ryt? Sadly, infinity is a badass thing which is hard to understand sometimes. It is a convergence if you take it as the limit of a sum... that is sum (n = 0 to infinity) 0.1^n * 0.9 ie. 0.9+0.09+0.009+0.0009+... or 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, 0.99999 etc. as n = 1,2,3,4,5,... Of course using the simple rule of a/(1-r) where a is the first value and r is the geometric ratio, you see 0.9/(1-.1) = 1 |
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