[Wolves] Yahoo! upgrade

Stuart Langridge stuart.langridge at gmail.com
Wed May 25 07:44:03 BST 2005


On 5/24/05, Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver at mavit.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Deusiah wrote:
> > When wil Gmail stop?
> >
> > They can't continue forever can they? I read a thing on Gmail about
> > their "infinate + 1" storage space plan.
> 
> That just depends on how fast they plan on increasing the
> limit.  For example, consider the sum of 1/n for n = 1 to m.  As
> m tends to infinity, the sum tends to 2.
> 
>         1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... < 2
> 
> In other words, you can carry on adding these fractions for as long as you
> like but you'll never get to 2.

I suspect it will be more like 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + ... which
does tend to infinity, but infinitely slowly ;)

Aq.



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